| RI | H8224 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of Class BV liquor licenses for the properties located at 94 Carpenter Street and 1023 Broad Street, both in the city of Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8225 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DRIVER PRIVILEGE CARDS AND PERMITS - Prohibits driver privilege cards and state identification cards from containing any bar codes on the card that can be scanned and used for voting purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7075 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H7050 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7324 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Removes basement area from the calculation of floor area ratios in relation to the provisions that a zoning ordinance may address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H7571 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CASINO GAMING - Amends the law consistent with the advent of iGaming and new technology. It also codifies the payment of investigatory expenses incurred by the State in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| 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Withdrawn at sponsor's request |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 | H7951 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments relative to the compliance and implementation of the comprehensive planning and use act including the conditions upon which limitations may be placed on la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H7339 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION TAX CREDITS - Eliminates the sunset provision for the motion picture production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: May 2]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7371 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Placed on House Calendar (05/02/2024) |
| RI | H7496 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN PROTECTION YOUTH EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Change and Ocean Protection Youth Education and Workforce Development Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: May 2]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7736 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM - Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory langu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
[Hearing: May 2]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8161 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION - Allows the executive office of health and human services to use appropriated funds to support graduate medical education programs and research.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7485 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7588 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a four (4) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to eighty percent (80%), beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8129 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Includes visual images that are created or manipulated by digitization, or without the consent of the person, within the purview of the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material and exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8187 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Robert L. G. Batchelor, Cpa, On The Occasion Of His Retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H7949 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Makes amendments to various provisions relative to subdivision of land review, review stages, special provisions related to development and the procedures for approvals from various permitting authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7407 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ORGAN DONATION LEAVE TAX CREDIT - Provides tax credits to any private entity that gives paid time off to an employee who is an organ donor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7542 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES - Changes the inspection requirement for a new motor vehicle from two (2) years to five (5) years from the date of purchase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7717 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires healthcare plans in RI to notify providers of any proposed amendments to an agreement 60 days before the effective date and requires 60 days notice of any amendment to a manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7743 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIAL - Allows a criminal defendant before the superior court to waive their right to a jury trial with the consent of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H8041 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8167 | Pass | House Resolution Reaffirming The Friendship Between The State Of Rhode Island And Taiwan While Supporting Enhanced Bilateral Relations With Taiwan And Taiwan's Participation In The International Community
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H7491 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Authorizes the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to enter into certain projects and procure related services including the transit center project, using design build contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7775 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $180,000 For The Rhode Island State Conservation Committee And Its Three Conservation Districts (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $180,000 To The Ri State Conservation Committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8003 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (crmc) (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Coun...
[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 | H7587 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Strongly Supporting A National Infrastructure Bank Through The Passage Of The 118th Congress H.r. 4052
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections 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 | H8009 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGAN-DONATION LEAVE ACT - Provides for paid leave for a state employee who donates an organ. The duration of the leave is dependent on the type of donation and notice should be provided to the employer at least thirt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections 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 | H7440 | Engross
50% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LOBSTERS AND OTHER CRUSTACEANS - Amends the current law to allow for the harvesting of blue crabs during the hours of darkness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H7654 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE - Permits the department of environmental management and local municipalities to drain, remove, and replace an overflowing septic tank or system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H8149 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Reduces the number of years from five (5) to three (3), when calculating for retirement purposes, the average of the highest consecutive years of compensation, for state and munic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7728 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE FIRE SAFETY ACT - Mandates an entity that owns five hundred acres or more of land to have a forest plan with fire mitigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7729 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURE FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Provides a definition for "agricultural land" and removes the definition of "farmer" within the chapter on agricultural functions of the department of envir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8071 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Does not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H8137 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating April Of 2024, As "organ Donation Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H8136 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2024, To Be "alcohol Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H8139 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming April Of 2024 To Be "national Child Abuse Prevention Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H7274 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Amends sections of law relating to retirement of various public employees and the calculation of their final average salary and service accruals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7424 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- FILING OF ASSUMED NAME - Changes the term "assumed name" to "trade name" and centralizes the filing, administration and regulation process of trade names to the secretary of state and requires an ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H7086 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- VEGETATION MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM RELIABILITY - Requires an electric distribution company to develop and act pursuant to a vegetation management plan approved by the DPUC to carry out vegetation management act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7241 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Amends definition for final compensation, relative to police officers and firefighters, provides them life annuity regardless of age or years of service, upon reti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7464 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Extends injured-on-duty (IOD) benefits to police officers and firefighters that suffer from diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorders, except under certain conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8063 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Supporting Continued Focus And Actions For Maintaining And Improving Adequate Transportation Services By The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority In West Warwick (would Direct The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority To Revisit The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8116 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- THE RHODE ISLAND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ACT - Replaces the existing limited liability company act with a newer and updated model act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8123 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating April Of 2024, As "child Sexual Assault Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H8125 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing And Commending The National Conference Of State Legislatures On Its 50th Anniversary In 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
House read and passed |
