| RI | S2497 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Frank Lombardo, Iii [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2034 | Pass | THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS-BILL REYNOLDS MEDIA WORK ROOM - Designates the media room at the Amica Mutual Pavilion as the "Bill Reynolds Media Work Roo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2114 | 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] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2312 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Provides that vacancies in excess of 3% for full time equivalent state employees which are substituted with contract employees shall require an appropriation to the pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2324 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides for an annual increase of supplemental income for individuals and couples living alone, in accordance with the consumer price index for urban consumers over the average for the previous calendar year... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2329 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CREDITS - Allows members of the retirement system who served in the national guard or reserves and who qualifies as veterans to purchase retirement service credits. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2336 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To Expand And Support The Green Economy Initiatives (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $16,000,000 To Support Green Economy Bond Initiatives Proposed In The Governor's Budget.) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2355 | 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] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2325 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Effective July 1, 2024, entitles environmental police officers to the benefits provided by chapter 45-21.2 entitled "Optional retirement for members of police force an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2330 | 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] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2317 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SHERIFFS - Allows retired sheriffs and other retired law enforcement personnel to be recalled into service as a sheriff or deputy sheriff without any reduction in their pension benefit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2315 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of firearm safety equipment and related products. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2314 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Increases the killed-in-line-of-duty benefit for active or retired police officer, capitol police officer, correctional officer, firefighter, crash rescue crew per... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2318 | 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] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2327 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Eliminates the sunset provision for the motion picture production tax credit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2284 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- INNOVATION SCHOOLS - Allows for the establishment of innovation schools for the purpose of improving school performance and student achievement through increased autonomy and flexibility. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2337 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends the Rhode Island Works Program to expand and increase benefits under the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2282 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Establishes "workplace readiness week". It requires all public high schools, including charter schools, to annually observe that week by providing information to students on their rights as workers and specifies the topics t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2308 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Enables school teachers, state and municipal employees to retire earlier. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2316 | Intro 25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Reduces the assessment by the Rhode Island Veterans Home against a resident's net income from eighty percent (80%) to fifty percent (50%). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2334 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- POSTSECONDARY TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR SHORTAGE TEACHING FIELDS - Creates a postsecondary tuition assistance for shortage teaching fields. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2311 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT - Increases the income limits for elderly or disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent (180%) of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2349 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION - Establishes a revolving fund to assist first-time home buyers and veterans to purchase a home in Rhode Island by issuing grants of up to forty thousand dollars ($... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2472 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Amends the current law on workers' compensation to require any person who is considered an independent contractor to file annually with the director of labor and training and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2464 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public meetings involving collective bargaining agreements of school teachers shall be open to the public. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2486 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMES OF CHANCE - Repeals the statute regulating games of chance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S2366 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2367 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Expands the positions that a person in the state retirement system could have at a state college or university post-retirement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2454 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2462 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT REFORM ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing (solitary confinement), as well as disciplinary and a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2475 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2025 at seventeen dollars ($17.00) per hour and for 2026 at twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2384 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for the licensed practice of naturopathy and to provide reports. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2424 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT - Provides for a parents' bill of rights related to the health, education and welfare of their minor children. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2386 | Intro 25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- "THE RHODE ISLAND INFORMED CONSENT PROTECTION ACT" - Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2372 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Increases conveyance tax for residential properties sold above $2,000,000 to a rate of $3.30 per $500, to be collected for RI housing for elderly affordable housing development. Provides and exemption to any e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2295 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2400 | Intro 25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- WHOLESALE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION PROGRAM - Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2403 | 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] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2449 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GENERALLY - Adds the Providence Canteen vehicles to the authorized emergency vehicles equipped with a siren, whistle or bell. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2477 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES -- FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT - Eliminate all exceptions to the provision that all employees are to be paid weekly except for employees of the state and its political subdivisions, municipal governments, and no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2430 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990 - Defines "anti-Semitism" for the state human affairs commission to use while investigating and working to resolve complaints of discrimination and for the commission against prejudice and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2259 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of James M. Casale [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2249 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Sharon Baptista [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2138 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming January 21-27, 2024, To Be "certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week" In The State Of Rhode Island [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2244 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Sympathy On The Passing Of Madeline Montanaro [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 Senate read and passed |
| RI | S2198 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2165 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax any items sold or provided for use in conducting memorial, funeral, or burial services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2150 | Intro 25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A COVERED ANIMAL - Exempts egg laying hens kept for commercial egg production purposes from the provisions of chapter 4-1.1 until January 1, 2034. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2166 | 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] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2170 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT - Limits investment tax credit to manufacturers. Requires determination of goals, objectives and effectiveness of the credit. Repeals the specialized investment tax credit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Finance Committee |