| RI | H8297 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Amends the refiling process for rules and regulations under the administrative procedures act by implementing a confirmation and attestation system to confirm agency rules and regulations ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3202 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Amends the refiling process for rules and regulations under the administrative procedures act by implementing a confirmation and attestation system to confirm agency rules and regulations ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8180 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILDREN'S MOBILE RESPONSE AND STABILIZATION SERVICES - Establishes a statewide mobile response and stabilization services program to provide rapid crisis response and short-term stabilization for children and youth in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3066 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILDREN'S MOBILE RESPONSE AND STABILIZATION SERVICES - Establishes a statewide mobile response and stabilization services program to provide rapid crisis response and short-term stabilization for children and youth in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8400 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUONSET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - Prohibits the operation of any thermal waste conversion facility such as pyrolysis within the Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park and expires on June 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3224 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUONSET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION - Prohibits the operation of any thermal waste conversion facility such as pyrolysis within the Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park and expires on June 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2841 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Mandates DCYF protection for benefits owed to foster children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S3152 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Amends the pension benefits for both current and former Rhode Island State Police members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-11
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S3327 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general to investigate the management and operation of agencies in an effort to prevent and deter fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement in the expenditu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-11
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S2829 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes a procedure to permit DCYF to apply for benefits on behalf of children, who are eligible, that are within temporary custody or guardianship of the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-11
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | H7676 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows advisory bodies to participate in a public meeting using videoconferencing, subject to certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2562 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Includes both the MomsPRN and PediPRN teleconsultation lines in the healthcare services funding contributions payable by health insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2987 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Prohibits the state from seeking reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of disabled Rhode Islanders from an ABLE account after the death of the designated beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2854 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Transfers responsibility for implementation of services for persons with traumatic brain injuries from the director of the department of human services to the EOHHS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S3118 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY, GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING - Redefines sports wagering sections specifically change the percent the host facilities receive on sports wagering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S3116 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIONS ON STATE AND MUNICIPAL COOPERATION WITH CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT - Prohibits state or local authorities from voluntary participation in federal civil immigration enforcement. It would not prohibit com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3159 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESIDENTIAL REUSE INCENTIVE ACT - Creates a state program and fund to finance adaptive reuse and mixed-use housing projects, requires affordable units and labor standards, and provides oversight to expand housing until...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8613 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- FARMLAND PRESERVATION ACT - Prohibits any city, town, quasi-municipal corporation or public corporation from assessing any existing agricultural operation or agricultural land for the extension of any water utilities p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S3330 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MEDICAID PROGRAM FUNDING AND REALLOCATION OF ENROLLMENT SAVINGS - Provides any Medicaid program savings associated with enrollment reductions would be retained within the healthcare system and reinvested through target...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-02
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | S2263 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- FARMLAND PRESERVATION ACT - Prohibits any city, town, quasi-municipal corporation or public corporation from assessing any existing agricultural operation or agricultural land for the extension of any water utilities p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S2496 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows a pregnant member or member that has given birth in the past six (6) months to appear remotely and permits any member that participates in a meeting remotely to vote at that meeting, provided tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3104 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL - Establishes a bureau of public protection within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8500 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Promotes fiscal integrity, transparency, and accountability in the state’s healthcare system by mandating that certain reporting covered health entities submit quarterly financia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2375 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2612 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows advisory bodies to participate in a public meeting using videoconferencing, subject to certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8468 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Allows the town of Coventry to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S2023 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2024 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE SUPERFUND ACT OF 2026 - Creates the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act of 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2140 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT - Provides that compensation comparability studies of senior management, documents discussed at an open meeting, annual contracting reports, list of current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2357 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT - Provides that funds or monies collected by designated quasi-public corporations or agencies not be subject to transfer or reallocation by order of the gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2400 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2550 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED BY A GOVERNMENTAL BODY - Requires as part of the director of administration’s report to the general assembly to include information on the number of hybrid, combustion engine, plug-in hybrid, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2814 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Removes the requirement that 5% of the hotel tax generated from regional tourism districts be paid to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau, and adds that 5% of the hot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2965 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- UNIFORM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT - Allows a party to condition a transaction by electronic means on their stated desire to obtain and receive a written copy of the document in English or Spanish before electronic ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8562 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general to investigate the management and operation of agencies in an effort to prevent and deter fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement in the expenditu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8561 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MEDICAID PROGRAM FUNDING AND REALLOCATION OF ENROLLMENT SAVINGS - Provides any Medicaid program savings associated with enrollment reductions would be retained within the healthcare system and reinvested through target...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7051 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8268 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Includes both the MomsPRN and PediPRN teleconsultation lines in the healthcare services funding contributions payable by health insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2319 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public meetings involving collective bargaining agreements of school teachers shall be open to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-13
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | H7466 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2026 - Enacts the RI individual market affordability act of 2026 to establish a program to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8184 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Prohibits the state from seeking reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of disabled Rhode Islanders from an ABLE account after the death of the designated beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2894 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Allows the town of Tiverton to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2991 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE BODY CAMERAS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ACT -- THE WILLIE WASHINGTON, JR. ACT - Mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervision roles to wear body cameras while on duty in their assigned facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2984 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2977 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIVE CONFINEMENT OVERSIGHT ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2664 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Removes the requirement that 5% of the hotel tax generated from the South County tourism district be paid to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2922 | Engross
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP - Establishes the Rhode Island center for employee ownership to facilitate businesses in transitioning to an employee-owned business model.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-08
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | S2049 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA to be provided for the treatment of opioid use disorder to any incarc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2371 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2026-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | H7695 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Establishes property, tangible, sales and use tax exemptions as incentives for the location of qualified data centers in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
