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RIS0037Intro
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TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Allows a municipality to set its own conveyance tax rate for residential properties sold in excess of $900,000.00 at $10 per $500. Provides collected taxes to be in a restricted account and distributed within ...
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Finance Committee
RIH5236Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Subjects residential properties which are a part of certain federal programs to a 12% tax of the prior year's rental income.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIS0123Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee
RIH5270Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Friends of Little Compton Wellness Center, Inc.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5307Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5368Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits the city of Providence to tax in excess of the levy cap for fiscal year 2026.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5369Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from property taxation, the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIS0335Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety. Effective 1/1/2026.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Finance Committee
RIS0351Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee
RIH5699Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Codac, Inc., a Rhode Island nonprofit domestic corporation, located at 45 Royal Little Drive in Providence, Rhode Island.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5694Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5688Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides an 8% tax rate for those properties that are encumbered by a deed restriction for low-income housing set at 80% or 60% of adjusted median income established by HUD.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5695Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5696Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Places a cap of twenty percent (20%) on increases in consecutive revaluations of real property in all cities and towns conducting revaluations commencing December 31, 2025, and every December 31 therea...
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIS0445Intro
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TAXATION -- FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER SAVINGS ACCOUNT ACT - Allows an individual, who is a first-time homebuyer, to contribute funds to a first- time homebuyers saving account with Rhode Island Housing to pay for eligible costs to purchase a home.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Finance Committee
RIS0418Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Includes "hosting platform" under the definition of "room-seller" and imposes a tax of 5% on the rental of a house or condominium with the tax used exclusively for infrastructure improvem...
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Finance Committee
RIH6011Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Removes state-owned property from property exempt from local property taxes.
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH6009Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Authorizes a retroactive tax credit for tax yr 2026/thereafter/allowing investment tax credits to be passed through to the personal income tax returns of eligible Sub-S corporation shareholders/limited liability comp...
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH6010Intro
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TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Allows the city of Providence to impose an additional conveyance tax of three quarters of one percent (0.75%) on sale of any real property in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000).
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH6014Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax firearm safety equipment, storage devices, gun safes, gun cabinets, gun vaults, gun cases, strong boxes, cable locks, trigger locks and biometric locks.
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH5966Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows city of Providence to levy a tax in fiscal year 2026, in an amount not to exceed seven percent (7%) in excess of the total amount levied and certified by that city for its previous fiscal year.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH6013Intro
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TAXATION -- PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the gross earnings tax on electric and gas companies.
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH5971Intro
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TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - Provides that a full-time employee is one that works an average of thirty-five (35) hours per week and provides that businesses awarded tax credits within a specified time period are ab...
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH5965Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Grants the city council of Cranston the authority to enact a homestead exemption ordinance.
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2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5967Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Establishes that a renewable energy resource shall pay $5.00 per kilowatt hour of alternating current nameplate capacity for tangible property and $3.50 per kilowatt hour of alternating nameplate capac...
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2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH6008Intro
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TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Allows an income tax credit for employer contributions to an eligible employee's ABLE account, for a maximum credit of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per employee, per year.
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2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee
RIH5030Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Grants the town council of the town of South Kingstown the authority to enact a homestead exemption ordinance.
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2025-02-27
Committee recommends passage
RIH5269Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
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2025-02-27
Committee recommends passage
RIH5309Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to five thousand dollars ($5,000) with respect to municipal taxes.
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2025-02-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5308Intro
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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 ...
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2025-02-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5370Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides tax credits or the equivalent assessment dollars to veterans, gold star parents, visually impaired persons and the elderly.
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2025-02-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5380Intro
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TAXATION -- AGREEMENT TO PHASE OUT CORPORATE INCENTIVES COMPACT ACT - Establishes a compact agreement among at least two (2) states to prohibit the use of subsidies to selectively retain industry or company entice relocation from one state to another...
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2025-02-27
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH5512Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.
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2025-02-27
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5793Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Amends the provisions under which a city or town may exceed the maximum levy for the assessment of local taxes.
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2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH5784Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Includes "hosting platform" under the definition of "room-seller" and imposes a tax of 5% on the rental of a house or condominium with the tax used exclusively for infrastructure improvem...
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5785Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Creates a sales tax holiday on August 9 and 10, 2025.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5756Intro
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TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Allows a municipality to set its own conveyance tax rate for residential properties sold in excess of $900,000.00 at $10 per $500. Provides collected taxes to be in a restricted account and distributed within ...
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5783Intro
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TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5760Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from twenty percent (20%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2026 and beyond.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5738Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5786Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Expands the definition of “book or other writing” to sales up to one thousand five hundred (1,500) copies and deny the sales tax exemption for third-party sales.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5754Intro
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TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5761Intro
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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, 2026.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5788Intro
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TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Prohibits the collection of sales tax on refundable deposits for batteries and core charges for motor vehicle equipment, parts or components.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5757Intro
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TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Caps delinquent tax interest rate at 12%. Prohibits audits beyond 3 years from date of tax filing, 7 years for fraudulent filings, and in no event beyond 10 years from date of filing or required filing date, whicheve...
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5759Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5770Intro
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TAXATION -- CIGARETTE, OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS, AND ELECTRONIC NICOTINE-DELIVERY SYSTEM PRODUCTS - Reduces the cigarette tax imposed by 75% for any modified risk tobacco product as defined in § 21 U.S.C. 387 k as a tobacco product sold/distributed to...
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
RIH5698Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property.
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2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5697Intro
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TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Exempts certain cities and towns whose communities exceed the low and moderate income housing threshold from the tax of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
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2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH5758Intro
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TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Includes payment of social security benefits to the modification reducing federal adjusted gross income on personal income taxes.
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2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee
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