| H5080 | 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5078 | 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5070 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5088 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| H5083 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5067 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT - Allows for the enactment of the dietitian licensure compact permitting a licensed dietitian from another state to become licensed within the state, and also permitting a dietitian licensed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5066 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE -- PROMPT PROCESSING OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - Prohibits certain claim practices of health insurers and medical providers. The act would further require fulfillment of medical record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5068 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TERMINATION OF SERVICE TO PERSONS WHO ARE DISABLED, SERIOUSLY ILL, OR IN ARREARS OF PAYMENT - Extends the forbearance of utility terminations for customers with serious illness certifications and would amend various p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5077 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5085 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5089 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- HARBORS AND HARBOR LINES - Amends the definition of a "houseboat" to include motorized or non-motorized vessels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5087 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE CHILDREN'S CARDIAC SAFETY ACT - Establishes "The Children's Cardiac Safety Act", and provide for childhood cardiac screening based on modules that incorporate current best practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| H5075 | Intro
25% | MAKING REVISED APPROPRIATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FY
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5076 | Intro
25% | Making Appropriations For The Support Of The State For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2026
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5082 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5079 | 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5081 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS -- VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION CHECKS - Waives the fees for vehicle identification number inspections for veterans, including active duty military personnel and members of the Nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| H5071 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5072 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5073 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PEACE OFFICER MAXIMUM WORKDAY AND OVERTIME COMPENSATION - Establishes a maximum hourly workday for all peace officers as defined in § 12-7-21 and a violation rate of pay of double time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Labor Committee |
| H5069 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits any city or town from requiring an applicant for license to carry concealed firearm to provide a reason for their request other than those outlined in § 11-47-1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5084 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5047 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Labor Committee |
| H5046 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5052 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Changes the service requirement for admissions to RI Veterans' Home from 90 days to 2 years, and gives priority to veterans defined as war veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5044 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Provides that parents and guardians of children with disabilities in private school have the same rights and remedies as parents/guardians of children in public school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| H5051 | Intro
25% | RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet Bridge.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H5043 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provides protection from and prevent the unethical, improper conduct and the collection of fees by, anyone advising or assisting a veteran filing a claim for disability be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5042 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES - Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5048 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates special motor vehicle registration plates for vehicles based on the not-for-profit entity Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H5050 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H5053 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- NATIONAL GUARD - Raises the amount of life insurance the state provides at no charge to Rhode Island National Guard members called up for federal duty to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5054 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Requires that the state and all municipalities that construct buildings after January 1, 2026, budget for maintenance on a yearly basis, at least five-tenths percent (0.5%) of the total c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| H5049 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Removes the requirement that the applicant for a Bronze Star Medal license plate pay a registration fee or transfer charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H5025 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5026 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5030 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Grants the town council of the town of South Kingstown the authority to enact a homestead exemption ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5027 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Provides that any law or regulation which prohibits or protects a person from exposure to second-hand smoke would include second-hand marijuana smoke or vapor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5023 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5020 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGAN-DONATION LEAVE ACT - Provides for paid leave for a state employee who donates an organ. The duration of the leave is dependent on the type of donation and notice should be provided to the employer at least thirt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5022 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- AWARD OF MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS - Increases the maximum state and municipal small purchase limits from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other state and municipal purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5024 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5018 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Provides that effective July 1, 2025, the profit margin of any electric distribution company gas distribution company, would not exceed four percent (4%), in any given calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5029 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at $16 per hour, 2027 at $17 per hour, 2028 at $18 per hour, 2029 at $19 per hour and for 2030 at $20 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Labor Committee |
| H5021 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Adds administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator to the state retirement system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
| H5034 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5035 | Intro
25% | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows Ryan Kenny and Brenna Sorkin to join Simran Bhajan Nebhnani and Louis Charles Miyara in marriage on April 26, 2025, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| H5017 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5032 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of a Class T liquor license by the town of Jamestown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5028 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Labor Committee |
