| RI | H7373 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Requires safe storage of firearms/provides civil and criminal penalties for violations/adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms requiring a trigger lock to be included with purchase/requires firearms dealers po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
[Hearing: May 23]
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H7664 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Provides a process for local canvassing clerks to notify the state board of elections regarding patterns of forgery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
[Hearing: May 23]
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H7663 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/28/2024) |
| RI | H8242 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM - Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, "the Rhod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8298 | Intro
25% | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows the Honorable Allan W. Fung to join James Donahue and Lamont Gordon in marriage on June 23, 2024, within the City of Cranston, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H8279 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7398 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Provides the state would cover dialysis for the treatment of end stage renal disease ("ESRD") and kidney transplants for persons who do not qualify for full Medicaid due to their i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7854 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides eligibility for an additional forty dollars ($40.00) per month in food stamp benefits to certain qualifying persons or households eligible for food stamp benefits, commencing July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7902 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Establishes the primary care training sites program and appropriates $2,700,000 for implementing the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7900 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires the EOHHS to establish an early childhood mental health hub program focused on improving access to infant and early childhood mental health services for childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8274 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7486 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- CAPITAL GAINS - Amends the capital gains tax rates and holding period from 5 years to 1 year. Imposes a non-owner occupied tax on homes assessed at more than $1,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8032 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES - Amends tax law on renewable energy products to exempt certain additional products from sales tax including battery energy storage system equipment, if supplied by a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7547 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILD CARE FOR ALL ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Child Care for All Act which would provide high quality and affordable child care to families throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7671 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN RHODE ISLAND ACT - Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7686 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends works program to provide eligibility for benefits to pregnant persons from onset of pregnancy including lawful permanent residents, increases monthly cash benefits, disallows termination of be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8219 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT - Adopts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact and would establish a joint public agency known as the Audiology and Speech-Language Path...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8108 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PILOT PROGRAM ACT - Extends the sunset date of the Rhode Island hope scholarship pilot program from 2028 to 2030, in order to allow the program to provide eligible students with funding for tuition and manda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
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] | 2024-05-07
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 | 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 | H8044 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Labor 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 | H7593 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7844 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7993 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows for a one-time two percent (2%) supplemental cost of living adjustment for plan year 2025 to the public pension benefits administered by the ERSRI, and allows for those benefits to be deducted from the taxpa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7208 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7433 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7590 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 8, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7684 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. It also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7674 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7856 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7918 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $25,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 5, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7995 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION - Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7999 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM - Provides that the $5,500,000 appropriation to the infrastructure bank from the 2023 budget act be allocated for eligible municipal infrastructure grant program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8148 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfers all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7215 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- SINGLE-USE PLASTIC STRAWS - Mandates that food service establishments only provide single-use foodware accessories and standard condiments to a customer upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7515 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Prohibits a manufacturer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing into commerce any product containing synthetic polymer micro particles beginning January 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8093 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program and a restricted receipt account as a find within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8103 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Allows a school district to establish a school year that is the equivalent of one hundred eighty (180) days through the use of longer school days or a combination of longer school days and shorter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H8104 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAM CONCUSSION ACT - Authorizes the sport of skateboarding to be a youth sports program that is part of Rhode Island Interscholastic League Competition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7017 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Directs PUC to extend utility termination moratorium for gas/electricity from April 15 to May 1, of each year with discretion to respond to emergency/ economic conditions/customers' needs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8007 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- TRANSFER OF VEHICLES - Allows temporary vehicle registration and plates issued to Rhode Island residents by another state to be valid; provided that, the plates and registration issued to an out-of-state resident by a Rhod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7787 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DATA TRANSPARENCY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protect Act for data privacy protections for the personal data of the citizens of Rh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H7996 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Reduces the interest rate on delinquent payments to the twelve percent (12%) per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7305 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Prohibits discrimination based on housing status, define "assistance animal", make it unlawful to issue discriminatory notices or statements relating to the sale, rental or leasing of housing and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7579 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Increases the state minimum wage by $1.25 per year from 2026 through 2029 when it would reach twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour and then provides for subsequent annual adjustments based on the Consumer Pric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7788 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Creates new definition for the term "employee", for purposes of wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment insurance benefits, which deems a worker to be an employee, as opposed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7540 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Establishes the Ranked Choice Voting for Rhode Island Presidential Primaries and provides for new sections on Ranked Choice Voting Tabulation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7285 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- UTILITY THERMAL ENERGY NETWORK AND JOBS ACT - Establishes thermal energy networks network infrastructure by any public utility company that provides electric/natural gas distribution to maximize cost-effective investm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Corporations Committee |
