| RI | 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 |
| RI | H5309 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to five thousand dollars ($6,000) with respect to municipal taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | H5100 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Authorizes municipalities to make an emergency declaration under limited circumstances to allow for the construction and use of SAVE Units on a temporary basis which have sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5050 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To House Special Legislation 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] | 2025-01-31
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5245 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5267 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS - Requires a housing code enforcement officer to give a copy of any housing code violation notice to all tenants of the building affected by a housing code violation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5257 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5114 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS - Amends the composition of the Urban Collaborative and provides that the collaborative be governed by a board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| 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 | H5132 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Prohibits psychological abuse in the workplace by employers or co-workers, ensuring a safe environment for employees, provides protection, civil remedies, and penalties for employers b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5112 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Requires the department of education to develop and make available for use in all schools a mental health curriculum. School districts would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Education 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 | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5107 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PATIENT BROKERING ACT - Prohibits the practice of patient brokering and would provide monetary penalties and enforcement by the office of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5105 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Enables the Rhode Island public transit authority (RIPTA) to work with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to allow commuter rail passes to be used as dual passes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5106 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Provides that any rate increase with respect to electric distribution companies would be no greater than the increase in the Consumer Price Index or 5.5%, whichever is greater, un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5121 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Establishes regulation by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology 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 | H5086 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
