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H5400Intro
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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 2026.
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2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee
H5348Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 ("commercial sexual activity"). It would also allow the option for HIV te...
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2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee
H5355Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DETERMINATION OF NEED FOR NEW HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES - Repeals the certificate of need process statutes which are used by the department of health to determine the need for new health care equi...
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2025-02-07
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5397Intro
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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.
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2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee
H5377Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILD ADVOCATE OFFICE - Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
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2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
H5391Intro
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PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- PREFERENCE FOR RESIDENTS - Provides Rhode Island residents over nonresidents with priority when making reservations to secure a campsite and other recreational facilities.
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2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee
H5384Intro
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ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be i...
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2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
H5362Intro
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Allows eligible individuals serving sentences of imprisonment to seek sentence reductions from the superior court, individuals serving life without parole or minimum mandatory sentences pursuant to law, would not be eligible for such relief.
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2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee
H5372Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
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2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
H5324PassHouse Resolution Proclaiming "carrigan Nelson Day" On February 8, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
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2025-02-06
House read and passed
H5325PassHouse Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Gloria Messerlian
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2025-02-06
House read and passed
H5045Intro
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House Resolution Extending The Reporting Date Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Utilizing Federal Title Iv Dollars To Support And Enhance Enrollment In Social Work Education At Ric (extends The Reporting Date Of The Le...
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2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5141Intro
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MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Establishes a motor vehicle license plate to honor Roger Williams.
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2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5027Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5099Intro
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HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.
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2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5023Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5171Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HARM REDUCTION CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PILOT PROGRAM - Removes the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers and creates a permanent pr...
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2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5083Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5327PassHouse Resolution Proclaiming February 6th, 2025, To Be "new England Freedmen's Aid Society Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
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2025-02-06
House read and passed
H5217Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Clean Air Preservation Act that establishes a regulatory process to prohibit polluting atmospheric experimentation.
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2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5326PassHouse Resolution Celebrating “national Women Physicians Day” On February 3, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
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2025-02-06
House read and passed
H5051Intro
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RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet Bridge.”
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2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5191Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5164Intro
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EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes a task force managed by the children’s cabinet to develop recommendations to improve access to early intervention and early childhood special education services.
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2025-02-06
To House Education Committee
H5048Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5050Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5167Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Creates the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
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2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5098Intro
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AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where p...
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2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5049Intro
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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.
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2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5117Intro
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FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Requires that all cosmetics manufactured, sold, delivered, held or offered for sale contain a label that completely and accurately list all of their component ingredients.
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2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee
H5328PassHouse Resolution Proclaiming February Of 2025 As “american Heart Month” In The State Of Rhode Island
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2025-02-06
House read and passed
H5019Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
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2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5317Intro
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HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
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2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee
H5294Intro
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AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- OLD GROWTH FOREST PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Old Growth Forest Protection Act to provide protection for state-owned forestland in their natural state prohibiting extractive logging and clearcutting in any forest on state...
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2025-02-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5312Intro
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ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.
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2025-02-05
To House State Government & Elections Committee
H5319Intro
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TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an inte...
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2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee
H5297Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities.
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2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
H5309Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to five thousand dollars ($5,000) with respect to municipal taxes.
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2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
H5321Intro
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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.
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2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee
H5311Intro
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ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
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2025-02-05
To House State Government & Elections Committee
H5298Intro
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DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present...
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2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
H5299Intro
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PROPERTY -- LEASED LAND DWELLINGS - Directs RIHousing to work with stakeholders to investigate and determine ways to assist an incorporated homeowners' association to exercise rights to purchase leased land.
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2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
H5293Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
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2025-02-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
H5307Intro
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TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.
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2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
H5313Intro
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House Resolution Proclaiming February 4, 2025, As "transit Equity Day" In The State Of Rhode Island In Honor Of Rosa Parks And Her Historic Fight For Equitable Public Transit
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2025-02-05
To House Special Legislation Committee
H5320Intro
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HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Prohibits the Rhode Island medical assistance program and managed care organizations that it contracts with from requiring prior authorization or step therapy protocol for a prescription of...
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2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee
H5291Intro
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COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RHODE ISLAND SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Social Media Regulation act, which would not permit a Rhode Island resident who is a minor to be an account holder on a social medi...
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2025-02-05
To House Corporations Committee
H5315Intro
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ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows retired election officials to work for the state board of elections on a temporary basis in any year in which a statewide, congressional or referendum general election is held.
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2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee
H5322Intro
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EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.
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2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee
H5300Intro
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CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
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2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
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