| H5394 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits cigarette distributors to have partial rolls or sheets of unused tax stamps redeemed by the tax administrator for ninety-eight percent (98%) of their face value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H5523 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax on sugary drinks and creates a dedicated revenue source for programs designed to benefit public health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| H5581 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes 1% state tax on sale of hookah tobacco/vaping devices, accessories/supplies/replacement parts & 1% local hookah tobacco/vaping devices tax to be used by cities/towns for education of persons of the dangers of hookah tobacco/vaping device usag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| S0646 | Pass | Allows Jayant Sane to join Ami Pathak and Rutul Davè in marriage on or about May 18, 2019, within the Town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0178 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes state higher education institutions to waive application and transcript fees for veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5603 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products, enhance the definition of "tobacco products", and would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and nicotine delivery systems from 18 to 21 years of age
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| S0666 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the tax administrator to remit thirteen percent (13%) of all hospital licensing fees to the municipality wherein the hospital is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0456 | Intro
Sine Die | Places limits on the terms that can be included in an agreement that settles a claim of sexual harassment, retaliation for reporting sexual harassment and stalking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H5404 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts trigger locks and safes designed and manufactured for firearms storage from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5221 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines as "disabled," persons receiving veterans' affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government for purposes of property tax relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H6079 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles correctional officers who have a minimum of twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to receive a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5112 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, for payment of the Vietnam bonus of James A. Falcon of East Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5793 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation real property acquired or leased by a railroad entity used in the boarding or disembarking of railroad passengers or supporting passenger railroad operations and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5854 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the rate for sales and use taxes from seven percent (7%) to six and one-half percent (6.5%) upon passage of federal law or court decisions authorizing states to require remote sellers to collect or remit rate or sales taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S0783 | Pass | Allows Mary Ann Scholz to join Stephanie Theresa Daub and Robert Edward Struck, II, in marriage on or about September 14, 2019, within the Town of Narragansett, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
Signed by Governor |
| H5413 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in values of motorcycles from sales tax and exempts from the state sales tax the trade-in value of any pickup truck under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5614 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from sales tax any amount a construction contractor charges clients for materials and supplies in connection with a construction contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5159 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit for community service hours provided by state residents to certain not for profit entities and municipal departments that are certified to issue credits for state community service volunteerism hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5098 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts self-employed sole practicing investigators operating independently from any partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association from the sale tax imposed on services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5577 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts reusable bags not including paper/plastic bags from state sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5622 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a use tax exemption for all health care facilities licensed by the department of health that are required by a federal or state government entity to purchase, store, use, or otherwise consume prewritten computer software.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S0644 | Pass | Allows Bethany Laskowski to join Jonelle Lorena Schofield and Joshua Kerry Cliff in marriage on or about May 18, 2019, within the city of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5157 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds urns and shrouds, prayer cards and other items customarily sold or provided by a funeral director to those funeral items which are already exempt from sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5010 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines as "disabled," persons receiving veterans' affairs disability benefits paid by the federal government for purposes of property tax relief and would be retroactive to January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5307 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the sales and use taxes products used for feminine hygiene in connection with the menstrual cycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5099 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the ten dollar ($10.00) fee requirement for the sales tax permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5222 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a nonprofit hospital facility converted from for-profit hospital facility would have a payment in lieu of tax agreement with the applicable city or town or subject to a municipal payment equal to sixty-five percent (65%) of the tax due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5948 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a municipality, in which twelve percent (12%) of the housing in a municipality qualifies for low-income housing, to charge a tax up to ten percent (10%) of the current year's gross scheduled rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| S0642 | Pass | Allows Adam Plumer to join Samantha Toohey and Matthew Borys in marriage on or about June 28, 2019, within the City of East Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0645 | Pass | Allows Mark S. Mandell to join Sara Kemper and Zach Mandell in marriage on or about August 31, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5947 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum tax for qualifying low-income housing from eight percent (8%) to ten percent (10%) of the property's previous year's gross scheduled rental income. The increase shall be used by local municipalities for public school education a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5158 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes a book of fiction or non-fiction within the definition of a "work" which is original or creative and for "one-of-a-kind, limited production" thus qualifying them for exemption from the sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5859 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any reimposition of car/trailer excise tax subsequent to fiscal year 2024 phase-out shall provide a uniform statewide tax rate for use by cities and towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Finance Committee |
| H5103 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables the RI public transit authority (RIPTA) to work with the Massachusetts Bay Transit authority (MBTA) to allow commuter rail passes to be used as dual passes for both RIPTA and MBTA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5104 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| S0848 | Intro
Sine Die | An insurer found in violation of the unfair claims settlement practices act can be liable for three (3) times the amount of damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| H6054 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a motor vehicle repair shop owner to sell, at a commercially recordable sale, a customer's vehicle if they fail to pay over thirty (30) days of properly charged storage fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0826 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the authority to prescribe drugs and devices and would provide the conditions for which a pharmacist may prescribe an indicated drug or device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5374 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates unused monies collected by the division to be allocated for the operation and maintenance of a statewide police and fire dispatch center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5521 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H6053 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes public records program managed by administrator/state archivist for custody/disposal of state records assisted by 17 member advisory commission with civil penalties for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0827 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public places to have naloboxes or naloxone on the premises for access and use during emergencies by trained employees or the general public with "Good Samaritan" protections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H6067 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of business regulation to undertake a social equity and race analysis to examine whether racial disparities exist in matters related to marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5105 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates interest rates and terms for payday loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H6044 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the exemption that allows elected officials to appear on a Rhode Island PBS Foundation television station program one hundred and twenty (120) days before any election in which they are a candidate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5101 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a commission to establish homeless shelter standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5318 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes a nursing loan interest forgiveness program that had sunset on December 31, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| H5244 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the authorized tax exempt holdings of Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island to $2,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (05/08/2019) |
| S0193 | Intro
Sine Die | Refunds the minimum tax paid by corporations with annual gross income of less than four hundred dollars ($400); but caps the amount refunded at four hundred dollars ($400).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5780 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Percentage of Income Home Energy Affordability Program, an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
