| RI | H7335 | Intro 25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES - Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2024, utilizing funds from the general fun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 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] | 2024-01-26 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] | 2024-01-26 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] | 2024-01-26 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7332 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS - Allows private employees at nursing homes, developmental disability and home care providers whose salaries are 90% funded with federal or state monies to be eligible to opt into the state healthca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 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] | 2024-01-26 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] | 2024-01-24 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] | 2024-01-24 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7275 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Adds the administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator to the state retirement system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2024-01-19 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7259 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To The Rhode Island Department Of Labor And Training To Encourage Members Of The State, City, And Town Police Departments To Seek A College Degree (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 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] | 2024-01-19 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] | 2024-01-19 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] | 2024-01-19 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7252 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amend the calculation of state funding provided to local education agencies for special education services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7254 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CREDITS - Allows members of retirement systems who also served in the national guard or reserves to purchase retirement services credits. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7255 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2025, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7250 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the term "extraordinary costs" for the purposes of excess costs associated with special education students. The new definition of extraordinary costs would be educational costs th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7224 | Intro 25% | MAKING REVISED APPROPRIATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FY [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7225 | Intro 25% | Making Appropriations For The Support Of The State For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2025 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 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] | 2024-01-17 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] | 2024-01-17 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7207 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Increases the state's regionalization bonus to six percent (6%) of the state's fiscal year share of foundation education aid and would be ongoing and continuing so long as the district r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7206 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Ensures that transportation categorical funds between the state and regional school districts would be fully funded. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 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] | 2024-01-17 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7185 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- REVENUE ESTIMATING CONFERENCES - Changes the timeframe of the Revenue Estimating Conferences meeting to within the last ten (10) days of April and the first ten (10) days of November of each year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7187 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7120 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 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] | 2024-01-10 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] | 2024-01-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7122 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7124 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state's child care subsidy program and the rates paid to child care providers serving familie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7123 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7026 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Requires all public school teachers hired on or after July 1, 2024, to participate in the retirement system social security pursuant to chapter 7 of title 36. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7035 | Intro 25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - Appropriates $1,875,000 for the creation of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline within the department of behavioral healthca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7028 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT - Increases the income limits for disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7029 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS - Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7037 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7031 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 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] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7033 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM -- CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES RATES - Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit to the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 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] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7027 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7024 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Allows cannabis establishments, as defined pursuant to § 21-28.11-3, to claim any deduction to income that would be allowable under the laws of the United States but for 26 U.S.C. § 280E. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 To House Finance Committee |