| RI | H5297 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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
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| RI | 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 |
| RI | H5185 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PROHIBITION OF UNFAIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS - Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the fut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5179 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND DECREES - Amends calculations of interest in civil actions a rate determined by average accepted auction price for last auction of 52 week U.S. treasury bills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| RI | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | 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] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5263 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Amends the heading of § 11-47-60.1 to include the words “Dillon’s Law.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5258 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES -- COMMON LAW MARRIAGE - Abolishes common law marriages entered into in this state on or after January 1, 2026, while recognizing the validity of any common law marriage entered into or adjudicated to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5260 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program pursuant to § 14-1-6 to children in the juvenile justice system and children who attain reunification prior to their eighteenth ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5259 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Prohibits the suspension of any person’s operators’ or chauffeurs’ license or their vehicle registration unless upon conviction of driving offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5265 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- ESTATES IN REAL PROPERTY - Defines the apportionment of financial responsibilities for expenses and improvements to the real property of the life estate between the life tenant and remainder man.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5264 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually unless the landlord is granted an exemption by the secretary of housing and provides tenants with a civil action to recover damages, including an awar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5220 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY -- POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015 - Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5223 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT ACT - Provides a remedy for any harm caused due to deprivation or violation of rights secured by the Rhode Island Constitution due to acts of the State of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5222 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime while...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5226 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Condemning President Donald Trump's Executive Order To Withdraw Citizenship From Children Born In The United States To Undocumented Parents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5219 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5224 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides a civil cause of action for individuals injured by artificial intelligence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5225 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE PROTECTED SPACES ACT - Limits the ability for any federal immigration authority to investigate, detain, apprehend or arrest any individuals for potential violations of federal immigration laws without a judicial wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5178 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies10 years after sentence completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5184 | 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] | 2025-01-24
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| RI | H5181 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| RI | H5186 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends current law on controlled substances to permit psilocybin to be cultivated within a person's residence for personal use and contingent on the US FDA's program, mandate that RI department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| RI | H5180 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- PAROLE - Requires one elector of the parole board to be a person directly impacted by the criminal justice system who has completed the probation/parole process three (3) or more years prior to selection with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| RI | H5177 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations, for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse, to thirty-five (35) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5103 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Prohibits landlords from inquiring about an applicant's prior incarceration and from discriminating against those who have been released from prison.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5131 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations To Address Concerns In The Delivery Of Healthcare To Inmates And Individuals Awaiting Trial In The Custody Of The Rhode Island Department Of Corrections (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5128 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Makes any offense under this statute that could result in the death of an animal punishable by up to 3 years in prison, a fine of at least $1,000, or both, for each offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5126 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PRICE GOUGING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROHIBITED - Makes it a felony to price gouge prescriptions or pharmaceuticals in time of a shortage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5124 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST STEP ACT - Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5125 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DOMESTIC ABUSE PREVENTION - Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint, including the enforcement remedy of a restraining order or other injunctive relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5127 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Allows a tenant to pay an increased security deposit in monthly increments over the course of a twelve (12) month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | 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 |
