| H5678 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-02
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| S0240 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-01
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Education Committee |
| H5703 | Intro
25% | THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS - Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S0484 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACT - Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5825 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Restricts increases in monthly common expenses and limit special assessments to cover unforeseen costs not included in condo association’s approved annual budget for common expenses in associations where the minority o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5129 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Provides for a residency requirement of at least six (6) months rather than one year for the Rhode Island family court to have jurisdiction over a divorce complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5444 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS - Defines slowing a vehicle for purposes of the “move over law” (§ 31-14-3) to mean twenty miles per hour (20 mph) under the posted speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0075 | 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| S0068 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Labor and Gaming 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5261 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits, effective 7/1/25, the family court to make appropriate orders of support and education of any child who has attained 18 years of age, but not 21, who is domiciled in the home of a parent, and is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5688 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides an 8% tax rate for those properties that are encumbered by a deed restriction for low-income housing set at 80% or 60% of adjusted median income established by HUD.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5508 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Provides that commencing January 1, 2026, the minimum wage shall be twenty-two dollars ($22.00) per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| H5156 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5696 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Places a cap of twenty percent (20%) on increases in consecutive revaluations of real property in all cities and towns conducting revaluations commencing December 31, 2025, and every December 31 therea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5823 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Voids any provision in a condominium declaration or bylaw that would limit an increase in annual assessments relative to a percentage of the prior year's assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5618 | Intro
25% | Requires all peace officers to carry epinephrine autoinjectors in their vehicles or on their person police departments to budget sufficient funds to purchase the epinephrine and autoinjectors and for training of every peace officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0462 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0247 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS-EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INFANTS - Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Education Committee |
| S0592 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5660 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS - Allows on and after September 1, 2025, an owner of motor vehicle(s) to transfer ownership and registration of said vehicle on their death, by a certificate of title designatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S0475 | 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5869 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COUNCIL - Eliminates one of two (2) conflicting versions of the science and technology advisory council authorizing statute, clarifying the structure of the council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5330 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that amendments to §§ 34-36.1-1.03 and 34-36.1-3.08 are applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, provides a definition for the term “special assessment” and allows unit owners to participate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5511 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Allows the commissioners of the water and sewer commission for the town of Jamestown to limit its public water system's obligation to supply water only within designated and described area as oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5507 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| S0464 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires every college in RI to train staff members in the student residential department, including RAs, to administer of opioid antagonists with protection from liability and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S0271 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| H5626 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drug, device or therapeutic equivalent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| H5278 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- MILITARY CHILD ACT - Defines "military-connected student", "advance enrollment" and "open enrollment" to give them flexibility in choosing a school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
Proposed Substitute |
| H5487 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Bans preferential treatment to a public or private university applicant because of the student's familial relationship to a previous university attendee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Education Committee |
| H5591 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VEHICLE BARRIERS -- THE CHARLOTTE A. VACCA ACT - Requires commercial property owners to install vehicle barriers at their retail establishment locations when new construction are being done and permits insurers to consider the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| S0201 | Intro
25% | VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON - Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Tiverton Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 5, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S0241 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S0074 | 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5679 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| H5116 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACEUTICAL COST TRANSPARENCY - Directs the state board of pharmacy to annually identify up to fifteen prescription drugs with increased costs and provide the list to the attorney general to obtain reasons for the cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| S0076 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Removes the requirement that applicants for a Bronze Star Medal license plate, pay a registration fee or transfer charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| H5699 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Codac, Inc., a Rhode Island nonprofit domestic corporation, located at 45 Royal Little Drive in Providence, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5716 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Eliminates provisions establishing a legislative regulation committee, and also repeals the provision that codes and standards adopted by the state building code standards c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| S0443 | Intro
25% | THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS - Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S0273 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Allows the commissioners of the water and sewer commission for the town of Jamestown to limit its public water system's obligation to supply water only within designated and described area as oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| H5549 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- RHODE ISLAND PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION - Provides a framework through which the department of business regulation can seek grants to fund a home hardening program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| H5723 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT - Requires any state agency that prints more than fifty (50) copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use state-owned o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| H5943 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Provides all employees of retail establishments with 15 or more employees engaged in work during Sundays or holidays shall receive from their employer no less than time and a half and shall be guarante...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| H5668 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| H5435 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Prohibits state agencies from entering into software contracts that limit the agency's ability to install or run the software on their hardware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| H5965 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Grants the city council of Cranston the authority to enact a homestead exemption ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| S0231 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Education Committee |
