| RI | H7091 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- LIFETIME LIMITS - Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 29]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H7239 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP AND GUARDIANSHIP OF ADULTS - Provides that supported decision-making pursuant to chapter 66.13 of title 42 be added to the Limited Guardianship and Guardianship of Adults forms section as one of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 28]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7328 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 28]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7721 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Outlines the requirements and process for LEAs to get written parental consent before conducting an evaluation, reevaluation, making an initial placement/changes in placement/the individual education program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Placed on House Calendar (05/29/2024) |
| RI | H7713 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC BICYCLES - Defines 3 classes of electric bicycles, authorizes the DEM to determine allowable uses of electric bicycles at properties under the department's jurisdiction, allows Class 1 electric bicycles to legally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 28]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7736 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-05-24
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/28/2024) |
| RI | H7855 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Provides amendments to the cannabis act relating to the definition of a social equity applicant and the required fee to maintain such status as a social equity applicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7895 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Codifies the Katie Beckett Program pursuant to federal guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 29]
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8102 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL EMERGENCY DRILLS ACT - Makes revisions to the number, timing, and procedures to be followed when schools grades K through 12 implement fire drills, evacuation drills, and crisis response drills, designed to protect the health and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
[Hearing: May 28]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H8312 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINER DEPOSIT RECYCLING ACT - Establishes beverage container recycling to be regulated by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7560 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- SHEILA C. "SKIP" NOWELL ACADEMY - Provides for changes to the operating structure of the Nowell Academy establishing a cooperative agreement among school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H8049 | Engross
50% | This act serves as the enabling act required by § 16-7-44 of the general laws in order for the principal and interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | H7101 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
House read and passed |
| RI | H7606 | Enroll
75% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H8050 | Intro
25% | Authorizes Providence to issue not more than $400,000,000 general obligation bonds & notes to finance the construction, related demolition, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing and equipping of schools throughout the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | H7398 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Provides the state would cover dialysis for the treatment of end stage renal disease ("ESRD") and kidney transplants for persons who do not qualify for full Medicaid due to their i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7678 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY SERVICES - Imposes a seventy-five cent (0.75) surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies as well as an account to benefit RIPTA from the payment of sales taxes collected from ride...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7854 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides eligibility for an additional forty dollars ($40.00) per month in food stamp benefits to certain qualifying persons or households eligible for food stamp benefits, commencing July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7903 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7335 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES - Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2024, utilizing funds from the general fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7486 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- CAPITAL GAINS - Amends the capital gains tax rates and holding period from 5 years to 1 year. Imposes a non-owner occupied tax on homes assessed at more than $1,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7594 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- BILINGUAL, DUAL LANGUAGE AND WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS INVESTMENT ACT - Authorizes the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish a program to expand the issuance of teaching certificates to bilingual dual language and w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7981 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends the provisions relative to permitted uses within residential, industrial and commercial zoning use districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H7213 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PHYSICAL THERAPIST LICENSURE COMPACT ACT - Allows the state to become a member of the physical therapist licensure compact adopted by twenty-five (25) states in order to facilitate the interstate practice of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7983 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Amends various provisions relative to the duties of the state building commissioner and would establish a building code education and training unit to educate building officials and inspectors statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H7500 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Repeals the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement and provides for a one time appropriate of $1,000,000 to inform patrons of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7547 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILD CARE FOR ALL ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Child Care for All Act which would provide high quality and affordable child care to families throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8203 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7253 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8245 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that licensed independent clinical social workers be able to enroll and bill Medicaid directly for covered services provided to adults with Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7125 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Eliminates the requirement of paying reinstatement fees to restore a person's right to drive.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7338 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Creates an additional Rhode Island personal income surtax of 3% on taxable income over $1,000,000, with the existing three-bracket personal income tax structure remaining in place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7495 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2025 BATTERY-POWERED LEAF BLOWER PILOT REBATE AND EDUCATION PROGRAM - Establishes a new chapter for the 2024 Battery Powered Leaf Blower Pilot Rebate and Education Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7857 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Bans state purchases of plastic bottles and also requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
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 | H7897 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Defines step therapy and prohibits certain groups and agreements from requiring prior authorization or a step therapy protocol when prescribing certain medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8079 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH PROFESSIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Increases the annual appropriation for the Health Professional Loan Repayment Program from one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to one million dollars ($1,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8078 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE LADDERS TO LICENSURE PROGRAM - Implements a grant program to fund public or private partnerships that provide opportunities for healthcare paraprofessionals to pursue higher education degrees and health professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7036 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7257 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Increases conveyance tax for residential properties sold above $2,000,000 to a rate of $3.30 per $500, to be collected for RI housing for elderly affordable housing development. Provides and exemption to any e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8170 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD - Requires all applicants who seek to register as a contractor to produce a legible copy of a valid government issued identification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7561 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Enables cities and towns to enact enabling legislation authorizing a partner program to assist students with an IEP for specially designed physical education classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H8178 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - Redefines the groups included in "minority community-based organizations" for purposes of them making recommendations for appointments to state boards, commissions, public author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8173 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits other residents of residential dwelling unit to extend term of rental agreement for 3 months after death of lessee, however it would not permit temporary tenant to permanent tenancy or rental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7720 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Ensures that independent pharmacies are protected from pharmacy benefit discrimination toward non-affiliated pharmacies and helps protect consumers' ability to choose local, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7716 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT - Requires that healthcare entities and network plans, eff. 1/1/25, include provision in every contract with a provider of mental health/substance use disorders that rates paid pursuant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8070 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS - Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and expands the licensing of school psychologists for independent practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H8143 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to 1 per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The Rhode Island attorney would have t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7590 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2024 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2024 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November 8, 2024, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7685 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- OIL SPILL PREVENTION, ADMINISTRATION AND RESPONSE FUND - Provides funds to support Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to reduce climate emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
