| RI | H7733 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7945 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT - Creates the occupational therapy licensure compact that would allow licensed occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants to practice in all states that join the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7356 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7782 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Created the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8043 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE AGENCY EMISSION REPORTING - Requires executive climate change coordinating council (EC4) to develop a template to be used by all agencies of the state to track their climate emissions to uphold the pathway to Rho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7197 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars, per ear, every three years for all people regardless of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7639 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS -- ANIMALS AS SENTIENT BEINGS ACT - Classifies animals as sentient beings, not property, capable of experiencing pain, stress, and fear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7605 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Establishes a definition of consumer accessible fair market value for purposes of determining the value of any vehicle that is damaged or totaled as a result of damage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7719 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES AND RESERVES - Replaces the term "the drug naloxone" with the term "opioid antagonist" in chapters regulating life insurance policies and group life insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7270 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7455 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and except in connection with a right to pass with carriages to be acquired by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7694 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2024 - Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7696 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Prohibits any agreement whereby an advanced practice registered nurse is restricted in the right to practice in a certain geographic area, assist or provide treatment or establish a professional relationship wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7825 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7821 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND OLMSTEAD PLAN COMMISSION ACT - Creates an Olmstead Plan for people vulnerable to unnecessary institutionalization to update a continuum of care to receive services and supports in the least restrictive env...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7826 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Amends the conditions upon which a nurse would be exempt from certain licensing requirements to include eligibility to practice, before taking and receiving results of the National Council Licensure Examination ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7738 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS - Relocates the chapter relating to licensing of massage therapists from the health and safety title to the businesses and professions title with multiple amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7451 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7650 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES -- EXTREME TEMPERATURE EMPLOYEE PROTECTION - Directs employers to take certain actions to protect their employees who are exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures and failure to implement or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7626 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND CHINESE MEDICINE - Broadens the definition of a "qualified individual" in acupuncture and Chinese medicine to include any person trained and certified in auricular acudetox.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7799 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM - Allows a licensed health care provider, who is assaulted in the workplace, to use the address of the department of health as the person's substitute address for all purposes, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7043 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7794 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION OF LABOR CONTROVERSIES - Reduces disruptive labor disputes with municipal police and firefighter unions during the transition to a new collective bargaining agreement by extending the existing collective barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7308 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7369 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from placing on a motorist's driving record, a traffic violation which fine has been paid no longer than thirty (30) days after its issuance. This procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7151 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7060 | Intro
25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Designates Sapowet Marsh Management Area, comprised of two hundred ninety-six (296) acres, more or less, located within the town of Tiverton and Sapowet Cove as open space to be utilized for passiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7320 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7153 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7099 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY -- POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015 - Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7300 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT - Prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution for sale a food product containing brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7363 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7246 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LONG-TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Adds climate change, sea-level rise and coastal resiliency to the analysis of data of the strategic plan for economic development policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7294 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FIELD TRIALS AND SHOOTING PRESERVES -- CAPTIVE HUNTING PROHIBITED - Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of upland game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7296 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empowers the department of transportation to plant pollinator-friendly species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7295 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes regulations to prohibit stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), solar radiation modification (SRM) experimentation, and other hazardous weather engineering activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7358 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- DEER HUNTING - Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7126 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the City of Cranston to issue not to exceed $40,000,000 general obligation bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7488 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) gross weight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7499 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Allows retired public safety officers to seek secondary employment with the state or any municipality without any reduction or forfeiture of retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7056 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- FORCE-FED POULTRY PRODUCTS - Prohibits force-feeding to create a force-fed poultry product nor hire another to engage in force feeding of a poultry product. Violations would be subject to a civil penalty of $500.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7059 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7047 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the current law on controlled substances to permit a person to be in possession of less than one ounce of psilocybin and permits psilocybin to be securely cultivated within a person's resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7104 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the DLT to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. Also adds civil monetary penalties fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7105 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the state purchases chapter and also adds penalties for those violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7199 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits family court to make orders of support and education of a child from ages eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7196 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE NATHAN BRUNO AND JASON FLATT ACT - Requires public school districts to adopt a policy for responding to the death of a student or staff member. Also amends the title of chapter 16-21.7 to "The Nathan Bruno, Jason Flatt, and Alicia Bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7081 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Protects and continues health insurance coverage for the dependent of an employee who wishes to change their health insurance coverage to Medicare or are currently on Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7083 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANCE LICENSING COMPACT ACT - Adopts the model compact for the physician assistant's licensure compact in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7150 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Expands the rights of physician assistants with regard to their practice and prohibits non-compete clauses that exceed five years with regard to the purchase and sale of a practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
