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Current trends in Rhode Island legislation over the last 72 hours as measured by public interest and activity.
| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | H5883 | Introduced | 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] | 2025-03-13 |
| #2 | H5676 | Introduced | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits residential rent increases to ten percent (10%) plus the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) annually. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #3 | H5798 | Introduced | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 Proposed Substitute |
| #4 | S0072 | Engrossed | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Disabled veteran license plate may be transferred to veterans' spouse or issued to veteran or veterans spouse. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #5 | S0679 | Introduced | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #6 | H5353 | Introduced | 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] | 2025-03-14 Proposed Substitute |
| #7 | S0643 | Introduced | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- SHELLFISH - Creates a shellfish hatchery program established by the department of environmental management to foster sustainable development and resiliency of the state's shellfish industry. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #8 | S0630 | Introduced | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTRIC AND GAS BILLS ACT - Requires electric and gas utilities to provide a detailed breakdown of supply, delivery, and public policy costs on electric and gas bills, including specific costs for ren... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #9 | S0690 | Introduced | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #10 | S0054 | Introduced | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Prohibits health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in- network mental health or substance use disorder services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04 |
| #11 | S0468 | Introduced | FOOD AND DRUGS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST PROTECTION - Prohibits the state, participating ERISA, or any health plan from purchasing referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #12 | H5794 | Introduced | 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] | 2025-03-14 |
| #13 | H5820 | Introduced | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD - Amends the obligation of entities to sell at retail to Rhode Island and use customers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28 |
| #14 | H5803 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Provides for the establishment and operation of an electronic permitting platform for all state and local permitting. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #15 | H5017 | Introduced | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 Placed on House Calendar (03/18/2025) |
| #16 | S0437 | Introduced | TAXATION -- NON-OWNER OCCUPIED PROPERTY TAX ACT - Imposes a non-owner occupied property tax on residential properties assessed in excess of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) at variable rates dependent on values assessed by local tax assessor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 |
| #17 | S0652 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL - Adds advanced recycling as a definition for refuse disposal. Adds the advanced recycling facility that means a facility that receives, stores and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks using advance... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #18 | H5635 | Introduced | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSING OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS - Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #19 | S0647 | Introduced | 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] | 2025-03-14 |
| #20 | H5842 | Introduced | EDUCATION -- FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT - Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28 |
| #21 | H5844 | Introduced | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER POLLUTION - Requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #22 | H5861 | Introduced | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #23 | H5554 | Introduced | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTERCHANGE FEES - Prohibits the charging of interchange fees on taxes and gratuities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #24 | S0469 | Introduced | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- "THE RHODE ISLAND INFORMED CONSENT PROTECTION ACT" - Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 |
| #25 | S0126 | Introduced | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects employees free speech regarding political or religious matters. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #26 | S0361 | Introduced | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
| #27 | H5852 | Introduced | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE - Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements to allow non-physician healthcare providers to enter into such agreements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 |
| #28 | H5368 | Introduced | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits the city of Providence to tax in excess of the levy cap for fiscal year 2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03 |
| #29 | H5498 | Introduced | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to monitor and mandate changes to the price-setting practices of pharmacy benefit managers to prohibit t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06 |
| #30 | H6081 | Passed | House Resolution Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day And Honors Ireland’s Role In The United States War Of Independence [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13 House read and passed |
| #31 | H5941 | Introduced | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PORTABLE BENEFIT PLAN - Establishes the portable benefit plan for independent contractors. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #32 | S0412 | Introduced | Joint Resolution To Amend The Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver Requests And Renewals -- Rhode Island Medicaid Reform Act Of 2008 (joint Resolution To Approve An Amendment To The Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver Requests And Renewa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 |
| #33 | H5252 | Engrossed | TOWNS AND CITIES -- WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUDGET COMMISSION - Creates a budget commission to oversee the Warwick schools district until such time as the fiscal year 2025 - 2026 Warwick school budget is approved. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| #34 | S0651 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities. That choose to participate. Reports would be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and would be submitted to the dep... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #35 | S0474 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #36 | S0600 | Introduced | INSURANCE -- VOLUNTARY RESTRUCTURING OF SOLVENT INSURERS - Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #37 | S0816 | Introduced | ELECTIONS -- DECEPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT SYNTHETIC MEDIA IN ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS - Creates the deceptive and fraudulent synthetic media in election communications chapter to regulate the use of synthetic media in elections. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #38 | S0824 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AND GENDER AFFIRMING CARE HEALTH DATA PRIVACY ACT - Creates the reproductive freedom and gender affirming care health data privacy act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #39 | H5940 | Introduced | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND OPPORTUNITY FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ACT - Creates RI opportunity for employee ownership, worker gets notice within seven days of sale of business. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #40 | H5775 | Introduced | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other intervention... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 |
| #41 | H5561 | Introduced | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - Prohibits healthcare providers and health plans from denying the payment of a medical bill, solely because the bill may have arisen from a third-party claim. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 |
| #42 | H5983 | Introduced | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Requires free breakfast and lunches be provided to elementary and secondary students attending public schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28 |
| #43 | H5945 | Introduced | PUBIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM - Provides for the creation of a new job classification for new or existing specialized information technology positions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #44 | H5686 | Introduced | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Requires municipalities to maintain and update a list of CRMC designated rights-of-way to tidal areas in their municipality. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #45 | H5294 | Introduced | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- OLD GROWTH FOREST PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Old Growth Forest Protection Act to provide protection for state-owned forestland in their natural state prohibiting extractive logging and clearcutting in any forest on state... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27 |
| #46 | H5955 | Introduced | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Creates the department of housing land bank program to allow for the deposit of title to real estate assets for the purpose of developing residential housing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #47 | S0689 | Introduced | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMBRYO SAFETY AND STORAGE ACT - Create the “Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2025.” Also requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 |
| #48 | S0358 | Introduced | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides a civil cause of action for individuals injured by artificial intelligence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #49 | H5801 | Introduced | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends several definitions relating to low- or moderate-income housing as well as the procedure for the approval of low- or moderate-income housing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 |
| #50 | H6053 | Introduced | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 85% of the fair market value... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 |
