| 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 | H7887 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Protect Patients And Traditional Medicare From Medicare Advantage
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7880 | 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] | 2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7378 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7425 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT - Requires certain limited liability partnership providing professional services to carry liability insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7614 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Requires the student advisory council to meet at least quarterly, provides the chairperson with equal voting powers as members on the council, and provides that a student under eighteen (18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7103 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7319 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- HEALTHY AND SAFE FAMILIES AND WORKPLACES ACT - Mandates that the work week be reduced to thirty-two hours and rate of pay for a thirty-two (32) hour workweek would remain the same as the rate of pay for forty hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7362 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H7643 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- HEALTHCARE SERVICE PROVIDER ABUSER REGISTRY -- HOLLY'S LAW - Requires the director of BHDDH to establish and maintain a registry of employees found to be in violation of and disciplin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary 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 | H7824 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to place a locked suggestion box in its facilities and create a digitally secured suggestion box into which residents may place comments and/or concerns to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7823 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department’s programs and servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7386 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES -- FREEDOM TO READ - Encourages and protects the freedom of public libraries to acquire materials without limitations and prohibits materials being removed from public libraries due to partisan or doctrinal disappr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7477 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RECOGNITION OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES - Recognizes the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe as a Native American Indian tribe for the limited purpose of assisting this tribe in establishing eligibility for federal benefits and pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7444 | 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] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7438 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes a task force managed by the children’s cabinet to develop recommendations to improve access to early intervention and early childhood special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7230 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- GROCERY STORES - Requires grocery stores to specifically limit the number of self-service checkout units to six (6) units per location. The consumer protection unit of the department of attorney gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7538 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Permits disabled veterans to be issued several disabled veteran plates, permits plates to be transferred to their spouse or caretaker during the veteran's life and would allow disabled veteran plates to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H7072 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7318 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- WRITS, SUMMONS AND PROCESS - Adds those persons with experience as a federal process server as qualifying for certification as a constable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7171 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Includes siblings, grandchildren, care recipient for temporary caregiver benefits of 12 weeks/Increases weekly dependent's allowances from $10 to $20 or 7% of benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7291 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION WORKFORCE DATA ACT - Codifies the previously funded Rhode Island early care and education workforce registry data system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7118 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES -- FOSTER PARENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Requires DCYF to prepare an annual report of all findings of suspected and/or verified violations of this chapter and share report on its w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7359 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Prohibits the application of lawn care pesticides on the grounds of any public or private pre-school or public or private school with students in grade twelve (12) or lower, except in an emergency situation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| 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 | H7331 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Provides a four (4) year expiration period on any certificate of exemption pursuant to this section for writers, composers and artists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7332 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS - Allows private employees at nursing homes, developmental disability and home care providers whose salaries are 90% funded with federal or state monies to be eligible to opt into the state healthca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7063 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Incorporates universal design principals into new construction of low- and moderate-income housing to provide greater accessibility for persons with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7089 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Requires that a business entity that is selling goods or services at retail offering a digital coupon to a consumer would also have to offer a paper coupon of identical value...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7020 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPARENCY IN ARTS EDUCATION ACCESS AND PROFICIENCY ACT - Establishes the Transparency in Arts Education Access and Proficiency Act to promote arts education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
