| RI | H5121 | Engross
50% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5165 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAMS - Requires the school board or committees of cities and towns to establish a safety and behavioral health committee and also lays out the representation requirements committee responsibilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5235 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5251 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS AND DUTIES TEACHERS GENERALLY -- SEPTEMBER 11 CLASSROOM MOMENT OF SILENCE - Allows the school building administration or teachers in all grades to provide the opportunity for students to observe a brief moment of silence on every ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5420 | Enroll
75% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES - Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5494 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
[Hearing: Jun 18]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5800 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds "providing for residential development in all or some of the areas encompassing commercial districts" as a purpose a zoning ordinance must address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
[Hearing: Jun 18]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5794 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
[Hearing: Jun 18]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H6129 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the town of West Warwick to issue not more than $71,000,000 bonds and notes to finance the acquisition, construction, improvement, renovation, furnishing and equipping of schools and school facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H6319 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Clarifies several workers' compensation court authority for injuries to sworn employees (police/fire).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5046 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5067 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT - Allows for the enactment of the dietitian licensure compact permitting a licensed dietitian from another state to become licensed within the state, and also permitting a dietitian licensed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5078 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that licensed independent clinical social workers be able to enroll and bill Medicaid directly for covered services provided to adults with Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5187 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee," and clarifies that the board may defer a pending unfair labor practice charge to allow for the grievance and arbitration process to move forward pursuant to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5193 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE FIRE MARSHAL - Creates a voluntary program through which registrants of electric and hybrid motor vehicles can request stickers to affix to enclosures housing such vehicles to promote first responders' safety in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5218 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5353 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5555 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care shou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5598 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5740 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNCLAIMED INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Permits the division of unclaimed property within the office of the general treasurer to accept miscellaneous intangible property belonging to Rhode Island residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5802 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments to enable the development of state-owned vacant, abandoned or underutilized land for housing and the process therefore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H5883 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES - Mandates municipalities to participate in the parking mobility app program where individuals may submit photos on the app of vehicles that are parked in spaces designated for individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5901 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-16
[Hearing: Jun 18]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6067 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Clarifies roles and regulatory authority for the administration of the program involving the repurposing of vacant schools for housing, extends the deadline for conducting feasibility studies and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H6343 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Allows the town council of Coventry to make exemptions from taxation on real and personal property that has undergone environmental remediation. This act is subject to conditions as provided in this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5266 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5421 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires all school buses be equipped with video monitoring system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H5611 | Pass | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5311 | Enroll
75% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5575 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- LONG TERM CONTRACTING STANDARDS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY - Allows for the procurement of nuclear power.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) |
| RI | H6165 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6187 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6370 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provide to provide greater clarity in insurance claim settlements, the appraisal process and procedural safeguards to enhance consumer protections against bad faith practices by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5088 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H6407 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5019 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5070 | Enroll
75% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H6159 | Pass | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT SECRETARIES, COURT REPORTERS, AND ELECTRONIC COURT REPORTERS - Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5513 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Implements a thirty (30) day waiting period following the issuance of a learners permit and the waiting period must expire before the person is permitted to take the road test in order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6389 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming And Acknowledging June Of 2025 As "portuguese American Heritage Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
House read and passed |
| RI | H6137 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special registration plate for the private passenger motor vehicle for former fire chief of the Hopkins Hill Fire District, Frank M. Brown, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
House read and passed |
| RI | H6156 | Pass | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Educational Outcomes For Children In State Care
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6039 | Engross
50% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5077 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5143 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts foster care individuals from drivers education fee at community college of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5526 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THUNDERMIST FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM - Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5527 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- CHILDREN'S MOBILE RESPONSE AND STABILIZATION SERVICES ACT - Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5847 | Pass | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Findings And Potential Solutions To Address The Flooding Of The Pawtuxet River (creates An 11-member Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations And Potential Solutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5283 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6338 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating "national Hospital Week" On May 11th Through May 17th, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
House read and passed |
