| RI | S2055 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $15,200,000 To Be Used To Purchase Pfas-free Firefighting Gear (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $15,200,000 To Cities And Towns To Purchase Firefighter And Rescue Personnel Protective Gear Which ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 [Hearing: Apr 25] To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2124 | Intro 25% | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Review Rhode Island's Minimum Wage (creates An Eleven (11) Member Special Legislative Study Commission Whose Purpose It Would Be To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Wage, And Who Re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2119 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2077 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Amends the law on nursing home minimum staffing requirements in order that any penalty incurred in calendar years 2022 and 2023 would be abated. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2128 | Intro 25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- POSTING OF VETERANS' BENEFITS AND SERVICES - Requires employers in the state with more than 50 employees to display a poster containing basic information on veterans' benefits and services be created and distributed by th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S2078 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS - Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2089 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends the definition of "low and moderate income housing" to include housing secured by a federal government voucher or subsidy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2103 | 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] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2111 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2094 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- LIGHTING EQUIPMENT AND REFLECTORS - Authorizes designated state and local election officials with supervisory responsibility over polling locations the use of amber flashing safety lights on their vehicles. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2095 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Provides that parents and guardians of children with disabilities in private school have the same rights and remedies as parents/guardians of children in public school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2064 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2056 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Eliminates the sales tax on taxi services and pet care services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2134 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from sales tax the trade-in values of motorcycles as well the proceeds received as a result of an unrecovered stolen or total loss of a motorcycle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2052 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2049 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Reduces the sales tax rate to 5%. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2044 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2054 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the state earned-income credit as of January 1, 2025 to seventeen percent (17%) of the federal earned-income credit, not to exceed the amount of state income tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2051 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts reusable bags from the state sales tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2058 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the federal adjusted gross income threshold for modification for taxable social security income. Amends references to federal adjusted gross income as pertains to modification of taxable retirement income f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2068 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2109 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2104 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2110 | Intro 25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2106 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |