| RI | H7733 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7940 | 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] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7941 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Removes the exemption from interest rate limits provided by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, for all loans made within the state of Rhod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7572 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES - Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7639 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS -- ANIMALS AS SENTIENT BEINGS ACT - Classifies animals as sentient beings, not property, capable of experiencing pain, stress, and fear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H8024 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES - Prohibits manufacturers of alcoholic beverages from holding or having any interest in a wholesaler license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H8067 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day And The 100th Anniversary Of The Establishment Of Diplomatic Relations Between The United States Of America And Ireland
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H7721 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Outlines the requirements and process for LEAs to get written parental consent before conducting an evaluation or making an initial placement of a student in a special education program of services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7368 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NOISE LIMITS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - Enables municipalities to install and use automated systems to detect noise limit violations in order to enhance enforcement abilities and reduce noise violations state-wide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7652 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Amends provisions relative to the levy and assessment of local taxes and would provide that the city of Providence may adopt a tax classification with unrestricted tax rates for certain classes of prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7651 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides that only residential properties and new or rehabilitated residential affordable housing units would be subject to the tax under § 44-5-13.1 relating to taxation of low-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7748 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- STATE AND MUNICIPAL COURT COMPACT - Authorizes the use of automated traffic violation monitoring systems for all traffic signal laws, including the "Don't Block the Box Statute" and allows for jurisdiction of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7825 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure.
[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 | H7382 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7379 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provides them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7505 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Permits hybrid cannabis cultivators to advertise regarding cannabis products during the transitional period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7777 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION -- RHODE ISLAND -- IRELAND TRADE COMMISSION - Establishes trade commission to advance economic interests of Rhode Island and Ireland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8031 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the state's share of supplementary assistance to individuals living in a state-licensed assisted-living residence from $332.00 to $352.00, of which $140.00 would be allocated to the personal needs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7451 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA to be provided for the treatment of opioid use disorder to any incarc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7650 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES -- EXTREME TEMPERATURE EMPLOYEE PROTECTION - Directs employers to take certain actions to protect their employees who are exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures and failure to implement or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Labor 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 | H8000 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- REDUCED HOUSING RENT PILOT PROGRAM - Establishes and funds an incentive program for landlords to offer reduced rents to eligible tenants. The program would be administered by the state department of housing with an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2024-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7794 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION OF LABOR CONTROVERSIES - Reduces disruptive labor disputes with municipal police and firefighter unions during the transition to a new collective bargaining agreement by extending the existing collective barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7427 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- EXCAVATION NEAR UNDERGROUND UTILITY FACILITIES - Amends the provision of notice to be provided for the release of any hazardous gas or liquid as determined by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7670 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE COLLEGE CRUSADE SCHOLARSHIP - Changes the name of The College Crusade Scholarship to the Onward We Learn Scholarship and provide that those scholarships would not be considered federal or financial aid with regard to the Promise Scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7686 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends works program to provide eligibility for benefits to pregnant persons from onset of pregnancy including lawful permanent residents, increases monthly cash benefits, disallows termination of be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7692 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $6,000,000 To Onward We Learn In Ri (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $6,000,000 To Onward We Learn In Ri.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7264 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PARTS - Prohibits insurance companies from refusing to use after market parts that are greater than 48 months and less than 72 months from the date of manufacture, provided the repairer has written consent from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7423 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DRIVER NATIONAL CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK - Provides a criminal background check procedure for for-hire intrastate passenger transportation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7456 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Amends the state's apprenticeship laws to make them more consistent with applicable federal regulations and makes said laws more comprehendible and consistent with each other.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7600 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February Of 2024, To Be "children's Dental Health Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H7070 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7294 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FIELD TRIALS AND SHOOTING PRESERVES -- CAPTIVE HUNTING PROHIBITED - Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of upland game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7034 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Increases the hourly wages paid to prisoners, for work performed by prisoners, with the consent of the director of corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7047 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends the current law on controlled substances to permit a person to be in possession of less than one ounce of psilocybin and permits psilocybin to be securely cultivated within a person's resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7109 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS - Adds the city of Central Falls as exempt from taxation for property acquired by an agency for redevelopment purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7414 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 7th Through The 14th Of 2024, To Be "congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
House read and passed |
| RI | H7094 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Amending The Joint Resolution Creating A Permanent Legislative Commission On Child Care In Rhode Island (this Resolution Would Amend The Commission Name, Membership, Appointment Process, Purpose, Funding Allowance Designation, Timeli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7337 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Requires free breakfast and lunches to be provided for all elementary and secondary students attending public schools.
[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 | H7108 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL - Provides time limitations on the collection or hauling of from large trash receptacles (dumpsters) refuse within one hundred feet (100') of a dwelling unit between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) pm and eight o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7113 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE EMBLEMS - Designates as the state music, the genre of rhythm and blues which contains elements of pop, soul, funk, hip-hop, and electronic music.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Special Legislation 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] | 2024-01-10
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] | 2024-01-10
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] | 2024-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7024 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Allows cannabis establishments, as defined pursuant to § 21-28.11-3, to claim any deduction to income that would be allowable under the laws of the United States but for 26 U.S.C. § 280E.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To House Finance Committee |
