| RI | H7019 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Establishes "workplace readiness week". It requires all public high schools, including charter schools, to annually observe that week by providing information to students on their rights as workers and specifies the topics t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 15]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H7232 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT - Incorporates the department of elementary and secondary education's SurveyWorks school climate indicators for evaluating the performance of LEAs and individual public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/15/2024) |
| 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] | 2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | H7517 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Provides for procedures for the burial of unclaimed remains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/15/2024) |
| RI | H7603 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RESIDENTIAL SOLAR ENERGY DISCLOSURE AND HOMEOWNERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Repeals the "Residential Solar Energy Disclosure and Homeowners Bill of Rights Act." Amends title 5 "Businesses and Professions" to include a new...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | H8032 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES - Amends tax law on renewable energy products to exempt certain additional products from sales tax including battery energy storage system equipment, if supplied by a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8237 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSE ANESTHETISTS - Establishes that the elective and/or independent administration of propofol and all FDA classified general anesthetics, for any surgery or procedure is not within the "scope of practice" of nurse pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8262 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- BENEFITS - Amends 4 sections relating to the workers' compensation benefits dealing with increasing the amount of dependent benefits payable to a totally disabled employee comprising this year's a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7490 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT ACT - Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7671 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN RHODE ISLAND ACT - Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7747 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Committee recommends passage of Sub B |
| RI | H8097 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-09
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H8190 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- ATTENDANCE FOR SUCCESS ACT - Establishes the "Attendance for Success Act" which focuses on student attendance in schools, with an emphasis on chronically absent students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H8206 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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] | 2024-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8108 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PILOT PROGRAM ACT - Extends the sunset date of the Rhode Island hope scholarship pilot program from 2028 to 2030, in order to allow the program to provide eligible students with funding for tuition and manda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7253 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance 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] | 2024-05-07
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H7670 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP - Changes the name of The College Crusade Scholarship to the Onward We Learn Scholarship and provide that those scholarships would not be considered federal or financial aid with regard to the Promise Scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7692 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $6,000,000 To Onward We Learn In Ri (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $6,000,000 To Onward We Learn In Ri.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8048 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Creates the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority which would allow eligible individual to discharge student loan debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8193 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides a 3% pension increase and annual COLAs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8194 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires that present and former employees, active and retired members, and beneficiaries receiving any retirement, disability or death allowance receive a $2,000 incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8246 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Charles H. Holdredge, Iii
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8250 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May Of 2024, To Be "older Americans Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8248 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating May Of 2024, As "brain Cancer And Tumor Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8049 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | H8050 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | H7339 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Eliminates the sunset provision for the motion picture production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7712 | Engross
50% | AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS - Designates the appropriate authority on air space issues as the president and CEO of the Rhode Island airport corporation and aligns certain job titles with their proper responsibilities relative to aerona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H8231 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May 6th Through May 10th Of 2024, To Be "teacher Appreciation Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H7334 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase Medicaid rates for the Early Intervention and First Connections programs allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8079 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH PROFESSIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Increases the annual appropriation for the Health Professional Loan Repayment Program from one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to one million dollars ($1,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8078 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE LADDERS TO LICENSURE PROGRAM - Implements a grant program to fund public or private partnerships that provide opportunities for healthcare paraprofessionals to pursue higher education degrees and health professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7050 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7251 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY EDUCATOR COMPENSATION STABILIZATION ACT - Directs the departments of human services and education to work together to sustain and strengthen existing workforce development and compensation programs for educators workin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7336 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING - Establishes the office of early childhood development and learning to manage a statewide early learning system for children from birth through age five (5), and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7497 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the continued implementation and expansion of high quality public prekindergarten education programs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7545 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7593 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7687 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7844 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7249 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Restores longevity payments of five percent (5%) of base salary for employees after ten (10) years of service and increase to ten percent (10%) of base salary after twenty (20) years of service, begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7592 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision of § 16-16-24.2 to June 20, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7588 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a four (4) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to eighty percent (80%), beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7054 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8197 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating "administrative Professionals' Day" On April 24, 2024, And Thanking All The Dedicated Staff Who Work Tirelessly In Support Of The Rhode Island House Of Representatives
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
House read and passed |
| 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] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8185 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "national Infertility Awareness Week" On April 21-27, 2024, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
House read and passed |
