| RI | H7747 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-06 [Hearing: May 9] To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7031 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7123 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7122 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7124 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state's child care subsidy program and the rates paid to child care providers serving familie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7187 | Intro 25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7404 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Relocates certain provisions of the general laws relating to child care assistance from the Rhode Island Works Program to the chapter on child care state subsidies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7476 | Intro 25% | ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS - Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| 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] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To Senate Commerce 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] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7676 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ANNUAL FUNDING FOR RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY ACT - Provides a mechanism for funding the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority through the use of an interest-free loan to advance certain federal funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7773 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,380,000 To The Rhode Island State Police For The Operation Of A State Police Recruit Training Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $1,380,000 To The Rhode Island State... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7896 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7904 | Intro 25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SUPPORT OF CHILDREN - Repeals the law requiring a parent to pay support and maintenance to agencies having custody of their child [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7916 | 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] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7905 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TUITION WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE - Establishes the tuition waiver program for children in Rhode Island foster care program. The purpose would be to increase the number of youths in foster care e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 8] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8005 | Intro 25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $60,000 To The Rhode Island Fire Academy For Training To Extinguish Small To Large Lithium Battery F... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7978 | Intro 25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Requires that municipalities implement electronic permitting for all development applications pursuant to zoning and the subdivision of land. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 Placed on House Calendar (05/07/2024) |
| RI | H8047 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES IN OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME - Provides $4 million to support after school and school vacation, summer learning workforce development programs for K-12 students with annual reports on status and programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8048 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Creates the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority which would allow eligible individual to discharge student loan debt. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 7] To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8206 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Warwick, Rhode Island. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 [Hearing: May 9] To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H8241 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7128 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less and motorcycles from the sales and use tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7565 | Engross 50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LONG-TERM CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL - Provides for remote participation in open public meetings of the long-term care coordinating council and would provide that a quorum of the council consists of 12 members. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H7629 | Engross 50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for thi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H8231 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May 6th Through May 10th Of 2024, To Be "teacher Appreciation Week" In The State Of Rhode Island [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H8234 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating "national Osteogenesis Imperfecta Awareness Week" On May 4 - 11, 2024 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02 House read and passed |
| RI | H7273 | Intro 25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all services provided by a pharmacist provided coverage of such services would have been covered if provided by a physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7334 | Intro 25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Directs the executive office of health and human services to increase Medicaid rates for the Early Intervention and First Connections programs allow... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7494 | Intro 25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To House Finance Committee |
| 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 | H7168 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse to thirty-five (35) years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7207 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Increases the state's regionalization bonus to six percent (6%) of the state's fiscal year share of foundation education aid and would be ongoing and continuing so long as the district r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7206 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Ensures that transportation categorical funds between the state and regional school districts would be fully funded. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7235 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Makes all sexual abuse or exploitation of a child causes of action not subject to statute of limitations whether lapsed or time-barred. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7336 | Intro 25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING - Establishes the office of early childhood development and learning to manage a statewide early learning system for children from birth through age five (5), and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7545 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social wor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7687 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7795 | Engross 50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare benefit. Vi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 House passed Sub A |
| RI | H7984 | Engross 50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Provides that mobile and manufactured homes be included as affordable housing under certain conditions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 House passed Sub A |
| RI | H8055 | Engross 50% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT - Allows the sharing of certain information between the division of taxation and the secretary of state's office regarding an entity's tax status as compliant or no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 House read and passed |
| RI | H7033 | 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] | 2024-04-27 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7037 | Intro 25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-27 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7591 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CASELOAD ESTIMATING CONFERENCES - Requires that the department of human services and the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals provide forecasted costs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-27 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7986 | Intro 25% | PROPERTY -- ABANDONED PROPERTY - Requires towns and cities to publish a list of abandoned properties and makes various other amendments relative to the sale of abandoned property by a receiver. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26 Placed on House Calendar (05/07/2024) |
| RI | H7275 | Intro 25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Adds the administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator to the state retirement system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7342 | Intro 25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Provides all retired teachers and all retired state employees a one-time stipend in the amount of three percent (3%) of the lesser of either the member's retirement allowance or forty thousand dollars ($40,000) of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To House Finance Committee |
| 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 | H7435 | Engross 50% | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Enacts a chapter to regulate pet insurance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 House read and passed |
| RI | H7567 | Intro 25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- DOMESTIC ASSAULT - Provides that effective July 1, 2025, any attorney who self-certifies that they have successfully completed a specialized domestic violence prosecution training course shall have the authorit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24 To House Judiciary Committee |