| RI | H8030 | Intro
25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
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| RI | H8160 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND COORDINATION FUND - Establishes the behavioral health education, training, and coordination fund to receive the checkoff contributions from Rhode Island personal income tax returns for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
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| RI | H8033 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $150,000 To Women's Fund Of Rhode Island (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $150,000 To The Women's Fund Of Rhode Island To Implement Programs And Initiatives That Seek To Clos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
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| RI | H8002 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Day One, Rhode Island's Sexual Assault Coalition And Rape Crisis Center (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Day One.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
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| RI | H8032 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES - Amends tax law on renewable energy products to exempt certain additional products from sales tax including battery energy storage system equipment, if supplied by a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7480 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7771 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Office Of The Postsecondary Commissioner For The Rhode Island School For Progressive Education (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7399 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Creates a sales tax holiday on August 10 and 11, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7120 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7405 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- AGREEMENT TO PHASE OUT CORPORATE INCENTIVES COMPACT ACT - Establishes a compact agreement among at least two (2) states to prohibit the use of subsidies to selectively retain industry or company entice relocation from one state to another...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| 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
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| RI | H8132 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Enables the city of Newport to impose a nine percent (9%) amusement tax on the sale of certain amusement ticket sales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| 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] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7546 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a tax upon the endowment of a private institution of higher education equal to two percent (2%) upon each dollar over $1,000,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H8133 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes an additional local hotel tax in the city of Newport, at a rate of two and one-half percent (2.5%) to be retained and used for its public infrastructure and resiliency purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H8195 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $150,000 To The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation For The Blackstone Valley Visitors Center (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $150,000 To The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation For The Blackstone V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7926 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Removes state-owned property from the exemption from local property taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | H7776 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $20,000,000 For The Housing Down Payment Assistance Program (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $20,000,000 To Support The Down Payment Assistance Program.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| 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
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| 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
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| RI | H7921 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW -- AND MODERATE-INCOME HOUSING - Provides for increases or decreases in the amount of foundation level school support that a community would receive, based upon a community's ability to meet and surpass its minimum low- and mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| RI | S2088 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2025, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| RI | H7490 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT ACT - Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
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| 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
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| RI | H7669 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the department's standard, burial allowance payment from nine hundred dollars ($900) to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
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| RI | H8196 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $2,000,000 To The Elisha Project (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $2,000,000 To The Elisha Project.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
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| RI | H7924 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- CHILD TAX CREDIT - Establishes a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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
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| RI | H8134 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 To Ensure The Development Of A Comprehensive And Actionable Plan That Addresses The Needs Of Rhode Island's Aging Population (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $250,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-09
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| RI | H7852 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides for an annual increase of supplemental income for individuals and couples living alone, in accordance with the consumer price index for urban consumers over the average for the previous calendar year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
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| 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] | 2024-05-08
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| RI | H8255 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
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| RI | H8108 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PILOT PROGRAM ACT - Extends the sunset date of the Rhode Island hope scholarship pilot program from 2028 to 2030, in order to allow the program to provide eligible students with funding for tuition and manda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
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| RI | H8099 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP - Extends the time for which a student may enroll in the community college of Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program to one year after the student's high school graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
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| 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
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| 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] | 2024-05-07
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| 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] | 2024-05-07
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| RI | H7259 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To The Rhode Island Department Of Labor And Training To Encourage Members Of The State, City, And Town Police Departments To Seek A College Degree (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
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