| RI | S2129 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Permits Dyslexia Advocacy Rhode Island plates to be issued for passenger or commercial vehicles upon the satisfaction of the required criteria relative to the number of plates ordered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2146 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAMS CONCUSSION ACT - Requires all school districts to designate an athletic trainer to be available for high school athletic practices and games.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/16/2024) |
| RI | S2211 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Only protective orders issued against adults are to be transmitted to A.G.'s B.C.I. for inclusion in the R.O.N.C.O. system. Protective orders against juveniles will be accessible to law enforceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2273 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Requires businesses that offer automatic subscription renewals/continuous service offers to provide consumers with notice to the consumer prior to their engagement in the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2278 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- SENIOR SAVINGS PROTECTION ACT - Prohibits the charging of any fees to a senior citizen who is 65 years of age or older for a hard-copy paper bill, invoice or statement. The violation of this provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2457 | Engross
50% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime while...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2442 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
[Hearing: May 9]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S2484 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Amends the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation special plate law to include an annual ten-dollar (10.00) surcharge for plate renewals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2511 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) |
| RI | S2843 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the continued implementation and expansion of high quality public prekindergarten education programs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/16/2024) |
| RI | S2804 | Engross
50% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PRISONER MADE GOODS - Allows correctional industries to conduct business for goods or services with any 501(c)(3) and would require customers of correctional industries to pay fifty present (50%) of an order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2096 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates the law enforcement officer's due process accountability and transparency act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Placed on House Calendar (05/09/2024) |
| RI | S2224 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Provides for enhanced penalties if a victim of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material is a minor or the offender is in a position of authority over the victim or the offense results in seriou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2161 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Provides children from birth through age five (5) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2322 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- LIFE ESTATE - Entitles holders of a life estate to real property to use any veteran's tax exemptions available to them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2293 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RENEWABLE READY PROGRAM - Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S2422 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2850 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT - Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in processing agents, until July 1, 2027, and also expands the law by banning PVC and polystyrene in packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S3043 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Provides for mandatory uninsured motorist coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3042 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE -- MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION - Increases the minimum claim amount necessary to require a matter involving motor vehicle liability be submitted to mandatory arbitration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3044 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends definition of "authorized representative" in the confidentiality of health-care communications/information act provides that an authorized repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2115 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- VICTIM'S RIGHTS - Amends the current requirement of payment of initial filing fee/service of process costs when the victim of crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of the case/seeks to enforce the civil judgment ente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2227 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Redefines misdemeanors for expungement purposes and make prior felonies, subsequently reclassified as misdemeanors, eligible for expungement pursuant to sections 12-1.3-2 and 12-1.3-3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2777 | 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] | 2024-05-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2781 | Intro
25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE - Provides amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code for emerging technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
[Hearing: May 9]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2834 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
[Hearing: May 9]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2809 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PFAS IN DRINKING WATER, GROUNDWATER, AND SURFACE WATER - Delays from June 1, 2024, until June 1, 2025, the necessity to conduct monitoring for the maximum number PFAS in drinking water and would amend the type of water system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2933 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- INTERLOCAL CONTRACTING AND JOINT ENTERPRISE - Removes the attorney general's oversight of interlocal agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2955 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2954 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-03
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S3037 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts the Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island from taxation of the real property and tangible personal property located at 831 Bald Hill Road in the city of Warwick.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
[Hearing: May 9]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2704 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- KRATOM CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2744 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases the penalty for violations of the care of dogs statute to a minimum fine of one hundred dollars ($100) and a maximum fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2024) |
| RI | S2810 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- DEER HUNTING - Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2024) |
| RI | S2882 | 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] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S3001 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S3024 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts 30% of the lessor’s assessed real property tax expense over $19,500 for each calendar year remaining on the 10 year lease dated July 27, 2021, of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S3034 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Prohibits state agency contract for licensing of software applications designed for generally available desktop/server hardware cannot limit agency choice to install/run software o its hardware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S3027 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Reduces the sales tax from seven percent (7%) to six and one-half percent (6 ½%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S3023 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Provides an option for members to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, upon reaching twenty-five (25) years of total service or after twenty (20) year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2119 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2486 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMES OF CHANCE - Repeals the statute regulating games of chance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2024) |
| RI | S2701 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Amends the "work on holidays and Sundays" statute to include Washington's Birthday in the definition of holidays for the purpose of this statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2024) |
| RI | S2785 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects employees free speech regarding political or religious matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2808 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- SOLAR DECOMMISSIONING PLANS - Requires that developers of ground-mounted solar systems submit a plan for decommissioning to be held on file by the municipality and requires DEM, with the office of energy resources, ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2901 | 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] | 2024-05-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S2952 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2024 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2983 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION -- STUDENT SUCCESS ACT - Reduces the time, from three (3) years to one year, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2124 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-30
Senate read and passed |
| 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] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
