| RI | H7787 | Intro 25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DATA TRANSPARENCY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protect Act for data privacy protections for the personal data of the citizens of Rh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H7788 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Creates new definition for the term "employee", for purposes of wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment insurance benefits, which deems a worker to be an employee, as opposed to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7949 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7951 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments relative to the compliance and implementation of the comprehensive planning and use act including the conditions upon which limitations may be placed on la... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8105 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT -- POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL -- CIVIL FORFEITURE PROCEDURE - Prohibits civil asset forfeiture regarding violations of the controlled substances laws until a criminal conviction is obtained. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7476 | Intro 25% | ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7969 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES - Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8040 | Intro 25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND SPECIAL DEPOSITS ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Special Deposits Act to be governed by an account agreement between the bank and the depositor or its beneficiary. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7127 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND RETIREMENT SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT - Establishes Rhode Island Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program to be administered by the general treasurer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7568 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES - Provides additional exception to prohibition on usage of wireless communication device while driving and clarifies that use for purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 Placed on House Calendar (03/28/2024) |
| RI | H7984 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Provides that mobile and manufactured homes be included as affordable housing under certain conditions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7980 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOBILE AND MANUFACTURED HOMES - Makes several amendments relative to manufactured homes, including adding a definition for manufactured home and a provision allowing for certain manufactured homes to be considered a single... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7978 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Requires that municipalities implement electronic permitting for all development applications pursuant to zoning and the subdivision of land. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7979 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish "combined review boards" to replace separate planning and zoning ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7977 | Intro 25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Ability Of The Rhode Island Educational System To Offer Degree Or Certificate Programs Within The State To Provide A Supply And A Pipeline Of Planners, Planning Technicians, And ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Mar 28] To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8095 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases the penalty for violations of the care of dogs statute to a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8094 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Waives, for one year, the Rhode Island whole grain requirement for meals served in Rhode Island public schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7575 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- OBSCENE AND OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS AND SHOWS - Establishes, as an affirmative defense to the crimes of circulating obscene publications or shows and selling or exhibiting obscene publications to minors, the person's employmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7572 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES - Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7649 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Increases mandatory liability coverage for retail alcoholic beverage license holders from $300,000 to $1,000,000/Prevents injured consumers of alcohol recovering damages/Increases mandatory min jail sentence f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7603 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RESIDENTIAL SOLAR ENERGY DISCLOSURE AND HOMEOWNERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Repeals the "Residential Solar Energy Disclosure and Homeowners Bill of Rights Act." Amends title 5 "Businesses and Professions" to include a new... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7740 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Provides updates and clarifications to the current penalties for driving after denial, revocation, or suspension of an individual's license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7952 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Spells out additional notice provisions, fees and costs of the arbitration process, from initiation to default provisions and potential court sanctions for breach of the a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7942 | Intro 25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Makes any term or condition in any agreement that unnecessarily burdens a person's vindication of rights under this section null and void. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8092 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating "uri Day" At The Rhode Island State House On March 21, 2024 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 House read and passed |
| RI | H8085 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island (Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island), a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7735 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE - Requires insurance coverage for at a minimum up to ninety (90) days of residential or inpatient services for mental health and/or substance use disorders for American Society of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8074 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Removes the requirement for a patient to obtain a referral from their primary care provider in order to see a specialist, on or after January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8075 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglyce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7203 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Adds the month of August to the dates a Class A retail alcoholic beverage establishment can offer unlimited free samples of wine, beer and distilled spirits products. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7506 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Provides for mandatory uninsured motorist coverage. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7558 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE -- MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION - Increases the minimum claim amount necessary to require a matter involving motor vehicle liability be submitted to mandatory arbitration. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7861 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Requires that insurance policies for property damage, personal injuries, and indemnification other than payment of compensation for workers compensation, state policy limits and no amount of the policy may be used t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7217 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULT WEAPONS - Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act to be "grandfathered". Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7269 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7268 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals § 11-47-35.2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7434 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Amends the current law to allow for the sale of alcoholic beverages by the bottle to be consumed on the premises of a licensee. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7561 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Enables cities and towns to enact enabling legislation authorizing a partner program to assist students with an IEP for specially designed physical education classes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7828 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows a law enforcement agency to consider expunged records when issuing a license or permit to carry a pistol or revolver. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7376 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires written acknowledgment from any buyer of oceanfront or shoreline property that they have been informed of the public's rights and privileges of the shore. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7410 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTS - Prohibits subscription or access fee charges for public access to recorded real estate instruments/limits recording and copying fees to amounts provided by statute with regards to cities/towns/third-party provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7368 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NOISE LIMITS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - Enables municipalities to install and use automated systems to detect noise limit violations in order to enhance enforcement abilities and reduce noise violations state-wide. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7424 | Engross 50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME - Changes the term "assumed name" to "trade name" and centralizes the filing, administration and regulation process of trade names to the secretary of state and requires an ann... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 House read and passed |
| RI | H7528 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- DECISIONS, SPECIAL FINDINGS AND ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES - Adds the doctrine of assumption of risk to the current comparative negligence statute. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7825 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8030 | Intro 25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8031 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the state's share of supplementary assistance to individuals living in a state-licensed assisted-living residence from $332.00 to $352.00, of which $140.00 would be allocated to the personal needs a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7219 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7362 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7523 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |