| RI | H7964 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND SALE - Allows for sending of the notice under power of sale and rights of active military servicemembers by USPS First Class Mail and/or an overnight delivery service, instead of by USPS certified mail return rece... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8106 | Intro 25% | THE NORTH PROVIDENCE CHARTER -- THE SALVATORE MANCINI CENTER ON AGING - Amends the charter of the Town of North Providence to create a new department entitled the "Salvatore Mancini Center on Aging." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7384 | Intro 25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Renames the "Roosevelt Benton Youth Assessment Center" as the "Roosevelt Benton Center". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 Committee recommends passage |
| 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 | H7509 | Engross 50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 House read and passed |
| RI | H7756 | Intro 25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - 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] | 2024-03-26 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7733 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7996 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Reduces the interest rate on delinquent payments to the twelve percent (12%) per annum. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8076 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- LIFE ESTATE - Entitles holders of a life estate to real property to use any veteran's tax exemptions available to them. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 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 | H8097 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates special motor vehicle registration plates for vehicles based on the nonprofit entity Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H8098 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COUNCIL ON THE ARTS - Establishes a Rhode Island creative futures fund in the amount of eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8099 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP - Extends the time for which a student may enroll in the community college of Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program to one year after the student's high school graduation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7470 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-21 House read and passed |
| 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 | H7197 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, per ear, every three years for all people regardless of age. [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 | H7544 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP -- RHODE ISLAND HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PILOT PROGRAM - Extends the time for which a student may enroll in order to qualify for the Promise Scholarship or the Hope Scholarship up to one year after high school gr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| 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 | H8024 | Intro 25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - Prohibits manufacturers of alcoholic beverages from holding or having any interest in a wholesaler license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7270 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7725 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Allows emergency preliminary certificates for teaching to be issued for up to a total of five (5) years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7751 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Punishes as felony act of unlawfully discharging a firearm or incendiary or explosive substance or device with the intent to hit or fire into any unoccupied dwelling, building, other structure or ship, automobile or oth... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 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 | H7886 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Bans the sale of cosmetics developed/manufactured using animal testing. A violation would be a $1,000 fine for each offense. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7378 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7379 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provides them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7449 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of sexual assault to submit a medical forensic exam performed by a licensed health care provider in lieu of a police report in order to establish eligibility for funds under the St... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7966 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8014 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7993 | 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] | 2024-03-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7916 | 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] | 2024-03-04 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7835 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE POLICE - Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdeme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7364 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7477 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RECOGNITION OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES - Recognizes the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe as a Native American Indian tribe for the limited purpose of assisting this tribe in establishing eligibility for federal benefits and pri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7468 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Exempts the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc. from payment of certain vehicles registration fees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7798 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7739 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- DISTRICT COURT PRACTICE - Amends the filing fees and time frame for certain claims of appeal to superior court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7308 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7467 | Intro 25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - Directs the governor to select a day and annually order the lowering of flags to half-mast on any state buildings to honor the passing of first responders. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H7447 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7170 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Prohibits any employer from denying any person employment based on a prior criminal conviction and prohibits state from disqualifying any person from any occupation for which a lice... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7169 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7672 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective July 1, 2024, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7629 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7320 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7423 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DRIVER NATIONAL CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK - Provides a criminal background check procedure for for-hire intrastate passenger transportation services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7456 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Amends the state's apprenticeship laws to make them more consistent with applicable federal regulations and makes said laws more comprehendible and consistent with each other. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7592 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision of § 16-16-24.2 to June 20, 2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7589 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Finance Committee |