| S2161 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Provides children from birth through age five (5) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2704 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- KRATOM CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2749 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Amend The Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver Requests And Renewals (approves An Amendment To A Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver To Mandate That The Eohhs Propose A 13% Raise To Provider Reimbursement Rates For Im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7734 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION - Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7559 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- DISTRICT CHARTER SCHOOL - Requires that certain quarterly reports required to be filed by district charter schools, mayoral academies and independent charter schools be submitted to the commissioner of elementary and secondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7654 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE - Permits the department of environmental management and local municipalities to drain, remove, and replace an overflowing septic tank or system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7148 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS - Amends the composition of the Urban Collaborative and provide that the collaborative be governed by a board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2964 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $750,000 To The Rhode Island School For Progressive Education Over Three Fiscal Years (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Total Sum Of $750,000 To The Rhode Island School Of Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2956 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Amends several provisions relative the powers and duties of the PUC and requires the submission by utilities of integrated distribution system plans identifying solutions to reduce greenh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2955 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE - Permits the department of environmental management and local municipalities to drain, remove, and replace an overflowing septic tank or system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2966 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a tax exemption to residents of the Town of Bristol who are over the age of sixty-five (65) years and who have continuously owned and resided in their primary residence in the town for at least twen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2960 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of taxable pension and/or annuity income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2968 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS -- WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS ON ROUTE 114 A EAST PROVIDENCE - Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2952 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2024 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2971 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MECHANICS' LIENS - Provides the arbitrator in mechanics' lien actions submitted to arbitration the authority to make certain findings of fact regarding procedure compliance and amounts owed which findings would be binding in the mechanics...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2962 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TUITION WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE - Establishes the tuition waiver program for children in Rhode Island foster care program. The purpose would be to increase the number of youths in foster care e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2954 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LOBSTERS AND OTHER CRUSTACEANS - Amends the current law to allow for the harvesting of blue crabs during the hours of darkness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| H7437 | Engross
50% | INCORPORATING THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE - Reduces the number of commissioners on the board of commissioners to no less than fifteen and would add a d/b/a Serve RI designation after commissions name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2970 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGULATION OF RENTAL OF MOTORIZED BICYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS AND MOTORIZED TRICYCLES IN NEW SHOREHAM - Expands the authority of the town council to enact ordinances establishing procedures and standards related to the rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2963 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides state employee public safety professionals with parity to municipal public safety employees in the state/municipal retirement systems eff. 7/1/24 with 10% contri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2974 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Expands the law on school lunch service contracts requirements that provides for payment to workers/aides for 180 days or the contract for the school year, exclusive of paid time off, including vacation days or other forms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S2951 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| H7440 | Engross
50% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LOBSTERS AND OTHER CRUSTACEANS - Amends the current law to allow for the harvesting of blue crabs during the hours of darkness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2975 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Condemning Turkey For Its Illegal Invasion And Continued Occupation Of Cyprus Since 1974
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2959 | 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] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7653 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS - Renames 46-19.1, allows existing docks on ponds with 1400 normal storage feet of water per DEM, allows property owner to commence work on property without pond owner authorization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S2961 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts battery energy storage system equipment, solar thermal collectors for commercial applications and solar storage tanks that are part of a commercial solar hot water system from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2958 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $180,000 For The Rhode Island State Conservation Committee And Its Three Conservation Districts (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $180,000 To The Ri State Conservation Committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2972 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H8149 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Reduces the number of years from five (5) to three (3), when calculating for retirement purposes, the average of the highest consecutive years of compensation, for state and munic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Finance Committee |
| S2965 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Provides that dental services rendered to patients would be reimbursed by standards governed by the general laws of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H7297 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS - Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2967 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island (Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island), a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2953 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- COMMERCIAL FISHERIES - Creates commercial dock space for businesses subject to being reviewed by the DEM. Would also include commercial fishers to be eligible for a grant program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2973 | Intro
25% | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows the Honorable Gregory A. Mancini, Esq., to join Abigail Elizabeth Moretti and Jake Scott Owen in marriage on or about October 12, 2024, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2950 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL EMERGENCY DRILLS ACT - Makes revisions to the number, timing, and procedures to be followed when schools grades K through 12 implement fire drills, evacuation drills, and crisis response drills, designed to protect the health and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2969 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Directs the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority (RITBA) design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H7073 | Engross
50% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Changes the service requirement for admissions to RI Veterans' Home from 90 days to 2 years, and gives priority to veterans defined as war veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H7384 | Engross
50% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Renames the "Roosevelt Benton Youth Assessment Center" as the "Roosevelt Benton Center".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S2655 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2407 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits those other residents of a residential dwelling unit to extend the term of the rental agreement for a period not to exceed three (3) months after the death of the lessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H7831 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTS - Amends the jury list and jury qualification statutes to add individuals receiving public assistance benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2332 | 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] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H7835 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT, AND BRIDGE POLICE - Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2090 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Requires radon testing within one year of any residential real estate transaction and the installation of a radon mitigation system if unsafe radon levels are present, at the seller's expe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2854 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTOR VEHICLE AND TRAILER EXCISE TAX ELIMINATION ACT OF 1998 - Repeals the provision setting a different timeline for reimbursement of East Providence for the FY 2025, and would bring East Providence in line with other municipalities in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2635 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H7522 | Pass | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The United States Congress To Extend Funding For The Affordable Connectivity Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| H7953 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS IN DISTRICT COURT -- POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE - Increases the fee payable to justices of the peace to one hundred dollars $100.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H7360 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (rirrc) To Conduct A Recycling/waste Audit On The Rhode Island State House And Provide Recommendations For A Waste Reduction Strategy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
