| RI | H5201 | Pass | Allows the presumption of in-the-line-of-duty illness unless contrary evidence is presented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5433 | Pass | Requires default notices to lessees of self-service storage facilities to be sent to the lessee’s last known address, and would require and advertisement of the sale of personal property to be published once on a publicly accessible website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5668 | Pass | Require public school districts to take certain actions to promote notice and disseminate information regarding the district’s special education local advisory committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5855 | Pass | Amends the definition of unfair claims settlement practices by insurers & motor vehicle damage appraisers, and creates a chapter providing for the appraisal of damaged motor vehicles, when the insurer & the insured cannot agree on the amount of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5007 | Pass | Establishes a lead water supply replacement program for public and private service lines and requires disclosure to tenants and buyers of real property of the presence of lead service lines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5782 | Pass | Subjects to taxation real property owned by nonprofit institutions of higher education/nonprofit hospitals also amends charters issued by the general assembly to nonprofit institutions/hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6059 | Pass | Amends certain general laws relative to zoning ordinance variances, special use permits, modifications thereto and also amends provisions relative to substandard lots of record and the merger of such lots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6086 | Pass | Amends certain notification procedures relating to comprehensive planning and land use, subdivision of land and zoning ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6061 | Pass | Amends the provisions relative to the subdivision of land and the application process requesting relief from zoning ordinances and the review process thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6333 | Pass | Establishes a statewide exemption of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) from the tangible property tax beginning January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5195 | Pass | Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5801 | Pass | Add a "national touring production" to the productions that are considered an "accredited theater production" for purposes of musical and theatrical production tax credits and extends the sunset of the credits to July 1 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6514 | Pass | Allows Robert Louis DiMuccio to join Paula Marie Fortin and Cosimo Anthony D’Elia III in marriage on or about July 1, 2023, within the Town of Smithfield, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H6522 | Pass | Provides judges the discretion to make the time period of a filing under § 12-10-12, but in no event longer than the maximum jail sentence allowed by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5564 | Pass | Adds immunity from liability and provide compensation for certain injuries for employees whose position within school directly involves work with students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5710 | Pass | Requires that any person who is considered an independent contractor to file a designation form by 01/31 of each year at a maximum cost of $50.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6523 | Pass | Decreases the number of hours needed for the issuance of a license for hairdresser and cosmetician licensing from 1,200 hours to 1,000 hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5619 | Pass | Amends the reimbursements to cities, towns and fire districts from state revenues for lost tax revenue due to any phase-out or reduction of the motor vehicle excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5374 | Pass | Allows participating municipalities to elect to its employees the deferred compensation plans offered by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5537 | Pass | Enables Rhode Island licensed new motor vehicle dealers to conduct vehicle identification number inspections and submits them for an NCIC check by the chiefs of police or designees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5989 | Pass | Extends the sunset on the increase total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment ins. claimant can receive before being entirely disqualified for unemployment ins. benefits/increase in the amount of earnings when calculating a wkly rate to 6/30/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6348 | Pass | Legalize iGaming by patrons located in the State of Rhode Island. Effective 3/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5946 | Pass | Requires that property owners implement lead hazard mitigation for pre-1978 rental dwelling units that are comprised of two (2) or three (3) units, one of which is occupied by the property owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6094 | Pass | Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Sojourner House, a Rhode Island nonprofit corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6201 | Pass | Allows for a property owner who fails to comply with lead hazard mitigation provisions to be subject to damages and reasonable attorneys' fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6400 | Engross
50% | Requires the law revision director to report to the general assembly, sections of law that are amended by multiple bills and which amendments are unable to be conflated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5955 | Engross
50% | Establishes a three (3) day transmittal period after the deadline for local boards to accept mail ballot applications, if delivered via the postal service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5831 | Engross
50% | Provides that liability insurance coverage would be provided for loss of the use of a rental motor vehicle, with limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H5043 | Engross
50% | Provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college or university who teach at least 50% of the hours regularly worked by full-time faculty in a semester would be eligible for the same medical benefits as other state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5475 | Intro
25% | Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6198 | Engross
50% | Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the traffic tribunal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6518 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Steven Contente, Bristol Town Administrator, On Being Named The Chief Marshal Of The 2023 Bristol Fourth Of July Celebration
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H6519 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Steven Lukowicz On His Retirement After Thirty-seven Years Of Educational Excellence With Coventry's Public Schools
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H5493 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "covered project" having a total nameplate capacity of three megawatts (3 MW) down to one megawatt (1 MW).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H5907 | Engross
50% | Amends the filing fees and time frame for certain claims of appeal to superior court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6508 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5487 | Engross
50% | Provides for mandatory uninsured motorist coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5032 | Engross
50% | Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-06
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H6457 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming Tuesday, May 30, 2023, As "cox Charities Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H5467 | Pass | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Pass Legislation To Provide Veterans Benefits To The Hmong/laotian Veterans Who Served The United States In The "secret War" In Laos
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
House read and passed |
| RI | H6389 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $3,000,000 To Rhode Island College For The Rhode Island Vision Education And Services Program (rivesp) (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $3,000,000 To Rhode Island College For The Rhode Island Vis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5039 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5240 | Intro
25% | Provides that the current COLA suspension schedule would be replaced with a fractional annual COLA of twenty-five percent (25%) of the COLA declared for that plan year, as it pertains to retired teachers, state and municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5404 | Intro
25% | Compensates pre-2011 retirees with a non-compounded one-time adjustment for the difference in benefits between 2011 and 2023. Provides a COLA for the year 2024 and every year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5641 | Intro
25% | Provides state employee public safety professionals with parity to municipal public safety employees in the state/municipal retirement systems eff. 7/1/23 with 10% contribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5812 | Intro
25% | Effective July 1, 2023, entitle environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 21.2 of title 45 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force and firefighters."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6017 | Intro
25% | Allows members of retirement systems who also served in the national guard or reserves to purchase retirement services credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6006 | Intro
25% | Provides a one-time allowance of five hundred dollars ($500) for eligible members of the employees' retirement system of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5984 | Intro
25% | Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law relating to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6207 | Intro
25% | Awards all pension system members 3% COLA applied to first $50,000 of retirement allowance annually exp.1/1/24 provided prior year investment return gains 10% or more until fund is 80% funded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Finance Committee |
