| H5311 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0166 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the administration of all forms of influenza immunizations to individuals of any age pursuant to a valid prescription or prescriber approved proto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5298 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5299 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5293 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| H5307 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S0171 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION - Allows the executive office of health and human services to use appropriated funds to support graduate medical education programs and research.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5320 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H5291 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0165 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from conducting or participate in spread pricing within the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0173 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to monitor and mandate changes to the price-setting practices of pharmacy benefit managers to prohibit t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5315 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H5322 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| S0169 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| H5300 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5295 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5304 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT - Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would be required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation frin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| H5308 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5302 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler, prescription device, or prescription equipment to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5306 | Intro
25% | SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION -- CAPITAL CENTER COMMISSION - Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S0172 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S0168 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits an insurer from imposing a requirement of prior authorization for any admission, item, service, treatment or procedure ordered by a primary care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5310 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND ACT - Restructures the Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increases its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and realloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5303 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINT HISTORY TRANSPARENCY ACT - Establishes a searchable database of healthcare professionals' complaint histories, accessible to employers. License holders can review and dispute inaccuracies, while ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5316 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- HOUSING FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNT ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Housing Flexible Spending Account Act of 2025 allowing Rhode Island employers to contribute pre-tax income into a housing flexible spending account (H-FSA), for employees to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H5314 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- THE PARKING SERVICES TAXATION ACT - Grants municipalities the authority to impose a parking services sales tax on parking lots and parking structures that charge for parking services through an ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| H5318 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| S0167 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that individuals enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B guaranteed right to enroll in standardized plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0157 | Engross
50% | Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of F.h.j. Moving & Storage, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5292 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- REGIONAL VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS - Requires that the basic education program data collection information for students that attend career and technical education schools be charged to the receiving school district and not the sending school di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| H5296 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT - Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0170 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - Grants the director of the department of health the authority to approve or deny any applications for professional licensure pending before a medical or dental board of licensure that has been unable to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0042 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT - Provides that funds or monies collected by designated quasi-public corporations or agencies not be subject to transfer or reallocation by order of the gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| H5183 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Allows lane filtering, the act of passing stopped or slow-moving vehicles proceeding in the same direction, for motorcycles at low speeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5101 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMERGENCY SHELTERS - Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters for homeless persons, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5221 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FINANCING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financiers in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5109 | Intro
25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE -- TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE AMENDMENTS - 2022) (Implements technical corrections to the transition rules for transactions governed by 2024 Public Laws Chapters 65 and 66 regarding security intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5270 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Friends of Little Compton Wellness Center, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5110 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. Disposition facilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5250 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Adds Juneteenth National Freedom Day to the definition of "holidays" to the chapter governing retail business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5262 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Adds school superintendents, central office officials, school principals, and all other school employees, to the definition of a “public official” for purposes of the criminal prohibition against makin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5182 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY - Provides that the cost of maintaining and repairing or restoring an easement or right-of-way shall be shared by each owner of a benefited property and their costs shall be determined by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5269 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5102 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates a commission to establish homeless shelter standards through regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5130 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases or shell casings seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing, also would require 2 test-fired cart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5214 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- PSITTACINE BIRDS - Bans the sale of parrots at pet stores from a breeder or broker. The pet store may sell parrots obtained from animal care facilities or animal rescue organizations. The sale would also be prohibited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
