| RI | H8005 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy For Training To Extinguish Small To Large Lithium Battery F... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7032 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- AWARD OF MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS - Increases the maximum state and municipal small purchase limits from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other state and municipal purchases. [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 | H7337 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Requires free breakfast and lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7916 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8241 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-05-03 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7496 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN PROTECTION YOUTH EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Change and Ocean Protection Youth Education and Workforce Development Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7128 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less and motorcycles from the sales and use tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7277 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7931 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAX HOLIDAY - Creates a sales and use tax holiday for the second Saturday and Sunday in July, annually. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7256 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts machinery and equipment used to provide broadband communications service the from the sales and use tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7125 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Eliminates the requirement of paying reinstatement fees to restore a person's right to drive. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7495 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2025 BATTERY-POWERED LEAF BLOWER PILOT REBATE AND EDUCATION PROGRAM - Establishes a new chapter for the 2024 Battery Powered Leaf Blower Pilot Rebate and Education Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7857 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Bans state purchases of plastic bottles and also requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7589 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7928 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7489 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Reduces the corporate minimum tax to three hundred fifty dollars ($350). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7929 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Authorizes a retroactive tax credit for tax yr 2022/thereafter/allowing investment tax credits to be passed through to the personal income tax returns of eligible Sub-S corporation shareholders/limited liability comp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7930 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Reduces the minimum interest rate on delinquent payments from eighteen percent (18%) per annum to twelve percent (12%) per annum. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7338 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Creates an additional Rhode Island personal income surtax of 3% on taxable income over $1,000,000, with the existing three-bracket personal income tax structure remaining in place. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| 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 | H7204 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Amends RI's existing Healthcare Services Funding Plan Act by adding an account relating to a new Psychiatry Resource Network to fund RI's present PediPRN and MomsPRN, as well ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7998 | 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] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8227 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- LOW-INCOME HOUSING IMPROVEMENT TAX CREDIT - Establishes the Rhode Island low-income housing improvement tax credit program providing tax credits for a period of five (5) years to applicants that are competitively selected and that meet th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7494 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7273 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7209 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $200,000 To The Brain Injury Association Of Rhode Island (biari) (this Joint Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $200,000 In The Brain Injury Association Of Rhode Island (biari).) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7897 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Defines step therapy and prohibits certain groups and agreements from requiring prior authorization or a step therapy protocol when prescribing certain medications. [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 | H8161 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION - Allows the executive office of health and human services to use appropriated funds to support graduate medical education programs and research. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7702 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7493 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| 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 | H7898 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Imposes requirements on a managed care organization (MCO) and pharmacy benefit manger (PBM) in order to control Medicaid prescription drug prices. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7901 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING - Requires coverage for residential/inpatient mental health services for detox/stabilization/substance abuse disorders without preauthorization or be subject to concurrent review during the first ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7333 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7205 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE MEDICAID REENTRY ACT - Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7597 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 To The Hospital Care Transitions Initiative (hcti) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $250,000 To The Hospital Care Transitions Initiative.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7899 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY HOME-VISITING ACT - Makes the Medicaid rate increase permanent for the first connections family home-visiting program and requires additional information to be added to the annual family home-visiting repo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 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 | 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 | H7909 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7772 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of Approximately $30,000,000 To Rhode Island's Public Schools For Safety And Security Improvements (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To Each Public School In Rhode Islan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7543 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Provides the state's share of the basic program and approved expenditures would be paid to the city of East Providence in twelve (12) monthly installments. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7036 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance 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 | H7906 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7910 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 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 |