| RI | H7026 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Requires all public school teachers hired on or after July 1, 2024, to participate in the retirement system social security pursuant to chapter 7 of title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
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| RI | H8132 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Enables the city of Newport to impose a nine percent (9%) amusement tax on the sale of certain amusement ticket sales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H7342 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Provides all retired teachers and all retired state employees a one-time stipend in the amount of three percent (3%) of the lesser of either the member's retirement allowance or forty thousand dollars ($40,000) of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
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| RI | H7254 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CREDITS - Allows members of retirement systems who also served in the national guard or reserves to purchase retirement services credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 25]
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| RI | H7485 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
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| RI | H7919 | Intro
25% | THE CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - Authorizes the submission of several bond proposals to the people of the state at the general election to be held in November, 2024, relating to capital development and the "cultural economy initiatives."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | S2858 | Engross
50% | Authorizes Providence to issue not more than $400,000,000 general obligation bonds & notes to finance the construction, related demolition, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing and equipping of schools throughout the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
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| RI | H7683 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Imposes a conveyance tax on purchasers, of single-family residential properties, who are for- profit entities with over $15,000,000 in assets, at a rate of $6.90/$500, to be collected for housing production fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H7923 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING PRODUCTION REVOLVING FUND ACT - Authorizes the department of housing to issue bonds in the amount of $50,000,000 with a maturity date not to exceed 20 years, to establish the housing production revolving fund, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | S2859 | Engross
50% | This act serves as the enabling act required by § 16-7-44 of the general laws in order for the principal and interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
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| RI | S2862 | Engross
50% | Enabling act required by § 16-7-44 in order for the principal of, and interest on bonds issued by the Town of Burrillville in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
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| RI | H7208 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H8181 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The City Of Warwick As Compensation For Municipal Services Provided At Rhode Island T.f. Green International Airport (this Joint Resolution Would Provide Payment Of $500,000 To The City Of Warwi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7681 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX -- AFFORDABLE HOUSING TAX CREDIT ACT - Creates business tax credit for, eliminates sale tax on, eliminates income tax on the sale of, and creates a 10 year tax valuation freeze on newly renovated affordable housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H7402 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STATE AID - Exempts schools or school districts subject to an intervention for failing schools from the withholding of aid provisions for infractions related to nonpayment of tuition owed by one community to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H8133 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes an additional local hotel tax in the city of Newport, at a rate of two and one-half percent (2.5%) to be retained and used for its public infrastructure and resiliency purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7673 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- FIRST TIME HOME BUYER SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT - Establishes the first time home buyer savings program act. Allows modifications to federal adjusted gross income for $50,000 in contributions and $150,000 of interest and dividends included in f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7776 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $20,000,000 For The Housing Down Payment Assistance Program (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $20,000,000 To Support The Down Payment Assistance Program.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8057 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety. Effective 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7257 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Increases conveyance tax for residential properties sold above $2,000,000 to a rate of $3.30 per $500, to be collected for RI housing for elderly affordable housing development. Provides and exemption to any e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7401 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE - Permits a school to calculate its maintenance of effort on a per-pupil basis and to deduct any nonrecurring expenditure from its maintenance of effort.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8183 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes a tax of five percent (5%) upon the rental of a house or condominium. The funds from the tax to be used exclusively for infrastructure improvements, riverine and coastal resilienc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
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| RI | H8109 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- STATEWIDE TANGIBLE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION - Repeals the language that eff. 2025 fiscal year all cities/towns/fire districts would receive a reimbursement equal to the tangible property levy for the 12/31/22 assessment date less the tangib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H7403 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE FUNDS - Allocates, to the cities and towns of the state, a portion of state income taxes for new employees of not-for-profit healthcare institutions and private educational institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
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| RI | H7596 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes the local meals and beverage tax on retail liquor stores with a Class A liquor license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 23]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8179 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8180 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Clarifies that all costs of goods used and services performed in Rhode Island shall qualify as state-certified production costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
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| RI | H7548 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SURPLUS FUNDS TAX CREDIT ACT - Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7406 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SUPPLY CHAIN RELOCATION INCENTIVES - Provides tax credits to an entity that relocates any part of the United States supply chain to Rhode Island. This act also provides tax credits and incentives to an entity that re-shores manufacturing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7542 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES - Changes the inspection requirement for a new motor vehicle from two (2) years to five (5) years from the date of purchase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7276 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION - Establishes a revolving fund to assist first-time home buyers and veterans to purchase a home in Rhode Island by issuing grants of up to forty thousand dollars ($...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7853 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Increases the minimum wage amount for any person committed to the adult correctional institution from three dollars to five dollars a day for every day the person shall labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7552 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- VETERANS' AFFAIRS - Provides that every city and town must maintain a municipal veterans' service officer. Also authorizes a one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000) appropriation to be used to fund matching grants for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7920 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- HISTORIC PRESERVATION TAX CREDITS 2013 - Extends the historic tax credit to June 30, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7407 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ORGAN DONATION LEAVE TAX CREDIT - Provides tax credits to any private entity that gives paid time off to an employee who is an organ donor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7340 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION TAX - Eliminates the gross earning tax for every corporation whose principal business is manufacturing, selling, distributing and/or transmitting current of electricity and natural gas to be used for light, heat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7682 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- PART 44-30-81 PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION - Provides, for the tax year 2023 and thereafter, that any tax overpayment would be refunded with interest calculated at twelve percent (12%) compounded daily if not receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7680 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Phases in an annual increase of the net taxable estate exemption by ten percent (10%) per year until the state exemption equals the federal exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7927 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAXATION OF BANKS - Provides banks with an election to use the allocation and apportionment method of income for purposes of taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7851 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND BABY BOND TRUST - Creates the Rhode Island baby bond trust to provide investment funds to children born to families with public health insurance or no insurance living in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7479 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Funds the state crime victim compensation program through an additional one dollar ($1.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| 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] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7541 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7994 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Increase the motion picture tax credit to $10,000,000 and then to $15,000,000 for 2026 and the total available credits to $40,000,000 for 2025 and $50,000,000 for 2026 and eliminates the sunset prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| RI | H7859 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED BY A GOVERNMENTAL BODY - Requires that any government owned vehicle that is to be replaced, be replaced with a zero-emission vehicle, defined as a vehicle which produces no emissions from the on-bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7774 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $78,000,000 To The Rhode Island Transit Authority (ripta) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $78,000,000 To The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7856 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7685 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7684 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. It also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7258 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- STATE FORESTS AND FORESTRY PROJECTS - Directs the general assembly to fund ten full time equivalent positions in FY 2025 to support DEM's efforts in the areas of forestry and forestry projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
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