| RI | H5074 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (rirrc) To Conduct A Recycling/waste Audit On The Rhode Island State House And Provide Recommendations For A Waste Reduction Strategy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5168 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all state licensed healthcare facilities to convert the powering of their operations from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. DOH promulgates rules and regulations to implement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5235 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5341 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- REGULATION OF BOATS -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Authorizes the collection of a small additional fee, in addition to the registration fee paid by motorboat owners, to be deposited in a restricted account, in order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5343 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5342 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Establishes an agricultural restricted receipt account within the department of environmental management. An advisory committee would be established to determine suggested uses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5375 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit municipalities and water suppliers to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements and permit tenants to request and schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5340 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Requires the producer of artificial turf and turf infill sold or distributed in Rhode Island to report its chain of custody, from installation to use, repurposing, recycling and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5465 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM - Establishes a single-payer health care insurance system, consolidating public and private payments into a more efficient Medicare-for-all style program, funded by progress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5424 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE SUPERFUND ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act cost recovery program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5538 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5492 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Creates the Microplastics Reduction Act to prohibit the sale or distribution of products containing synthetic polymer micro particles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5535 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax behind-the-meter batteries interconnected with a solar photovoltaic system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5494 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5493 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5426 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5433 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5432 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Prohibits health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in- network mental health or substance use disorder services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5425 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- STATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS METRICS - Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that state construction projects which cost in excess o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5470 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2026 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2026 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November, 2026, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5467 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Extends allocation of motor fuel tax to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Fund through 2025. Changes the allocation to 30% total proceeds, including 30% from the one cent per gallon environmental prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5475 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5459 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Right To An Adequate Education (amends The Constitution To Guarantee Rhode Island Residents With Equal Opportunity To Receive An Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5463 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5477 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Establish A Statewide Main Street Coordinating Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Formal Establishment Of “main Street Rhode Island”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5450 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- ALL-ELECTRIC BUILDING ACT - Provides that no city or town may issue a permit for the construction of new buildings, that are not an all-electric building, if the initial application for a permit was submitted after Decemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5446 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits a tenant, at the tenant’s expense, to implement energy conservation measures to any dwelling or dwelling unit such as removable weather-stripping around doors and windows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5247 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provide that advertising goods that don't include a price referencing all mandatory fees and charges shall be a deceptive trade practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5412 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist On His Induction Into The Rhode Island Criminal Justice Hall Of Fame, Class Of 2024
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H5167 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | H5158 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS - Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations 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 | H5255 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Includes the definition of "primary care services" and requires that all biennial reports shall include a review and recommendation of rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5242 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Friedrich St. Florian
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H5218 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5234 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To The United Way Of Rhode Island For The 2-1-1 Human Services Hotline (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To The United Way Of Rhode Island To Provide Operati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Finance 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 | H5207 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Resident Physicians And Fellows Affiliated With Brown University On Their Successful Campaigns To Organize Unions At Rhode Island Hospital-brown University Health And Care New England Hospitals
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5210 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating The 11th Annual "physician Anesthesiologists Week" From January 29th Through February 4th, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5203 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5195 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5172 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- THE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USE BY HEALTH INSURERS TO MANAGE COVERAGE AND CLAIMS ACT - Would promote transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence by health insurers to manage co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5120 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5065 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Sister Joan Rokicki, Rsm
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H7787 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RHODE ISLAND DATA TRANSPARENCY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protect Act for data privacy protections for the personal data of the citizens of Rh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-29
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H8103 | Pass | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Permit school districts to use release days for professional development; provided that, instruction time meets the yearly requirement of one thousand eighty (1,080) school hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-29
Effective without Governor's signature |
