| S0124 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the exemption from sales tax for clothing including footwear from $250 to $1,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0132 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the exemption for retirement income from state income tax from $15,000 to $20,000 commencing in 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5193 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from tax burial containers, liners and vaults and items sold by funeral directors to conduct funeral services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| S0130 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a modification for up to $15,000 retirement income of the taxable portion of retirement income from certain types of retirement plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0122 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the "Start-Up Rhode Island Act," whereby selected businesses would not be required to pay state income, business, corporate taxes, local taxes or franchise fees for a period of up to ten (10) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0135 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5133 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants solar energy system retail purchasers protections requiring disclosures in the retail/lease documents the right to cancel/rescind agreement within 90 days prior to installation/notice of liens filed on their property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H5031 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that § 34-7-4 ("right of footway denied") applies only to private rights of footway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| S0133 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the trade-in values of motorcycles from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0107 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum corporate tax from four hundred dollars ($400) to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for the year beginning on July 1, 2019, and abolishes the minimum tax for tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0113 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all new school buses purchased/leased on or after January 1, 2021, be equipped with a 3-point seat belt system for the operator/passenger seats and requires school districts to prepare implementation, use and compliance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5030 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables cities and towns to provide property tax relief to individuals who take resiliency measures to rehabilitate their property because of flood hazards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Municipal Government Committee |
| S0123 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of interest on delinquent state tax payments from 2% to 3% greater than the prime rate, and also reduces the cap and floor on such interest to no greater than 15% and 12% per annum, respectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0161 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of permits for medical marijuana compassion centers from three (3) to six (6).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0166 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands jurisdiction of the family court related to custody or guardianship of immigrant children to include immigrant persons younger than twenty-one (21) years of age for purposes of abuse and neglect determinations in accordance with federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0121 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a charitable food donation tax credit to encourage donations of food to nonprofit organizations. The tax credit established would be equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the fair market value of the contribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5076 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5075 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the sealing of any district court file, where a resolution of a trespass and eviction complaint results in a verdict for the tenant and no appeal is taken.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5083 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the police officer commission on standards and training to establish mandatory training standards for police officers and trainees in all incidents involving mental health literacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| H5061 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the honorary, unpaid, position of the official state astronomer to be appointed by the secretary of state for a term of five (5) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5074 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an annual day of special observance day to honor Rhode Island's first responders on October 28.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5029 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a classified employee, whose position is not fully funded through federal loans and/or grants to seek the nomination of or to be a candidate for elective state office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5026 | Pass | Authorizes the town of Barrington to fill a vacancy on the Barrington town council by combining all town council voting districts into one district for a special election in 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5032 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands certain rights of persons with developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| H5084 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits lobbyists from making any political contributions to any member of the general assembly from January 1 through July 1 in any year, unless the general assembly adjourns for the year prior to July 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0085 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides protections to residents of this state furloughed by the federal government relating to civil proceedings, credit card transactions, payments relating to mortgages, leases and installment contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S0008 | Pass | Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5150 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Making Revised Appropriations In Support Of Fy 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Finance Committee |
| H5060 | Pass | Allows the Honorable James R. Langevin to join Ann Margaret Little and Seth M. Klaiman in marriage on or about February 2, 2019, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Signed by Governor |
| S0096 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a $2.00 tax for admission to adult entertainment businesses. Funds to attorney general to disburse for combating human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S0053 | Intro
Sine Die | Subtracts state tax refunds, paid to an individual in the previous year, from federal adjusted gross income, for purposes of the state income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0022 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that applicants for historic tax credits shall have ninety (90) days after the date of the commission's written determination certifying the rehabilitation to pay the required three percent (3%) non-refundable fee to the division of taxation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0020 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires little cigars tax be imposed in the same manner as cigarette tax with twenty-five percent (25%) of revenue applied to smoking cessation programs and that little cigars be sold in packs of twenty (20) or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0018 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals § 16-7-34.3 regarding reimbursement by the state for conventional public housing students, and adds provisions to § 16-7.2-6 providing permanent foundation education aid funding for students residing in conventional public housing units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0019 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and direct the board of governors for higher education to assess a transportation fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) per semester to students attending a RI public institution of higher learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5110 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the statewide site readiness fund, a state sponsored fund for the preparation of shared ready commercial, industrial and manufacturing property in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-11
To House Finance Committee |
| H5109 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the town of Tiverton to be prospectively reimbursed at the forty percent (40%) floor of the housing aid share ratio on projects completed before June 30, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-11
To House Finance Committee |
| S0007 | Pass | Allow the Honorable Hanna M. Gallo to join Claritza Mejia Salazar and Thomas G. Casale in marriage on or about January 11, 2019, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Signed by Governor |
