| RI | S2226 | Pass | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Provides that a magistrate of the family court has the power and authority to hear contested divorce matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2152 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2153 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issues relating to the control of aquatic invasi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2298 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS -- COASTAL RESILIENCY - Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) and a resiliency office within the department of environmental management (DEM) be charged with the creation, maintenance and updating of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2337 | Pass | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Provides amendments to the Rhode Island Works Program regarding eligibility and cash assistance, and repeals the termination of benefits to a family because of failure of a family member to enter int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2704 | Veto | FOOD AND DRUGS -- KRATOM CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Vetoed by Governor |
| RI | S2499 | Pass | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS ACT - Creates the financial framework for incentivizing energy storage systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2802 | Pass | INSURANCE -- EXAMINATIONS - Amends the statutory provisions regarding domestic and foreign insurers and insurer examinations to provide provisions with regard to cybersecurity events involving Rhode Island consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2036 | Pass | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Directs PUC to extend utility termination moratorium for gas/electricity from April 15 to May 1, of each year with discretion to respond to emergency/ economic conditions/customers needs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2262 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT - Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2293 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2379 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LACTATION COUNSELORS PRACTICE ACT OF 2024 - Specifies the requirements and procedures for licensing lactation counselors as well as the renewal, expiration, termination, refusal, revocation and suspension of licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2418 | Pass | ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS - Allows non-affiliated party voters to vote in party primaries, without becoming an affiliated party voter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2609 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION - Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2803 | Pass | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- POWERS AND OPERATIONS - Amends outdated provisions of the banking statutes and the home loan protection act, adds consumer protections, including minimum capital requirements and limits on investments, for currency transmitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2214 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FACILITATING BUSINESS RAPID RESPONSE TO STATE DECLARED DISASTER ACT OF 2024 - Exempts out-of-state businesses and their employees performing services, during declared state or federal disasters or emergencies, from state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2937 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2059 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Extends injured-on-duty (IOD) benefits to police officers and firefighters that suffer from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorders, except under certain conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2185 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires information on the public's rights and privileges of the shore to be included in disclosure forms for the sale of vacant land or real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2255 | Pass | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION - Eliminates prior authorization or step therapy requirement for prescriptions for any HIV prevention drug/prohibits the requirement of any co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2297 | Pass | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FURBEARING ANIMALS - Deletes subsection (b) of this section which lists the furbearing mammals in the state and requires DEM to promulgate by rule, a list of "furbearers" for this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2382 | Pass | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS - Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2976 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for the surviving spouse of a National Guard member to have the spouses National Guard plates transferred to them upon their spouses death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2240 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition of The Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-15
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2125 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2633 | Pass | IN AMENDMENT OF AND IN ADDITION TO THE ACT, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 1883, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE UNION FIRE DISTRICT OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN", AS AMENDED - Amends charter of the Union Fire District of South Kingstown by renaming '...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2979 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT -- PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM - Reduces the number of years from five (5) to three (3), when calculating for retirement purposes, the average of the highest consecutive years of compensation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2090 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires radon testing within one year of any residential real estate transaction and the installation of a radon mitigation system if unsafe radon levels are present, at the seller's expe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2597 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2896 | Pass | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNCLAIMED INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Provides conditions which persons paid to recover or assist in recovering reported property must comply with.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2947 | Pass | MOTOR VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Adds "loose material" to the contents of a vehicle that must be covered by a covering that must remain in place until the vehicle's contents are purged from the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2952 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2024 - Establishes a program for the energy benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S3127 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- MOTOR PASSENGER CARRIERS -- NON-EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION - Establishes a safe and reasonable regulatory framework for companies and drivers providing non-emergency medical transportation services to a populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S2853 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND UTILITY FAIR SHARE ROADWAY REPAIR ACT - Requires that public utilities plan utility work in accordance with the state transportation improvement program schedules when working on state roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2970 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGULATION OF RENTAL OF MOTORIZED BICYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND MOTORIZED TRICYCLES IN NEW SHOREHAM - Grants the authority to the town council to enact ordinances establishing procedures and standards related to rider safet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2187 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Requires hosting platforms offering short-term rental of residential property for tourist or transient use to disclose on listings the current, valid registration number and its expiration dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-10
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | S2811 | Engross
50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides that the legislature would be the body that negotiates on behalf of the state for all activities occurring in, on and over state submerged land extending beyond twenty-five (25)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S3144 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINER DEPOSIT RECYCLING ACT - Establishes beverage container recycling to be regulated by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2343 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Redirects the distribution of the hotel tax money generated in the South County regional tourism district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2722 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Protects the solvency of health systems, physicians, and advance practice providers and insurers, encourage fair treatment of hospitals an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2367 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Expands the positions that a person in the state retirement system could have at a state college or university post-retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2364 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2580 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows for a one-time two percent (2%) supplemental cost of living adjustment for plan year 2025 to the public pension benefits administered by the ERSRI, and allows for those benefits to be deducted from the taxpa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2930 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2366 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2800 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- INTERSTATE COMPACT ON INDUSTRIALIZED/MODULAR BUILDINGS - Repeals the Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings in its entirety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3066 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Changes utility company billing practices so that when a gas electric utility changes their customer billing, they would be required to file a copy of the new bill with the PUC for approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2054 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2025 to seventeen percent (17%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2573 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- HUMAN SERVICES FTE ACCOUNTABILITY PORTAL - Directs the department of administration to establish a human services transparency FTE portal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2865 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires any benefit enhancements afforded under the employees' retirement system of Rhode Island or the municipal employees' retirement system to be amortized over in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
