| RI | S0146 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0097 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0101 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0099 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0150 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0131 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0137 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0102 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Prohibits total education aid paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0151 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0112 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE BRIGHT TODAY SCHOLARSHIP AND OPEN ENROLLMENT EDUCATION ACT - Establishes a new educational program that allows students to enroll public and private schools of their choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0105 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of Approximately $30,000,000 To Rhode Island's Public Schools For Safety And Security Improvements (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To Each Public School In Rhode Island For School Safety A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0090 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0119 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF BUPRENORPHINE - Encourages and authorizes the department of health to adopt rules and regulations that lead to the more liberal utilization of buprenorphine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0144 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits possession or use of device that muffles sound on any firearm longer than 17” in length and permits the use of such a device by any person while hunting provided that they have a valid hunting license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0149 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0095 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0142 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits Rhode Island residents, 21 years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0089 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0088 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT - Requires as part of the solar permit application an assessment on carbon-neutral, a solar permit would only be approved if it was carbon neutral based on the assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0136 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0120 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0107 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SURPLUS FUNDS TAX CREDIT ACT - Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year would be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0061 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT - Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0065 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0019 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- INNOVATION SCHOOLS - Allows for the establishment of innovation schools for the purpose of improving school performance and student achievement through increased autonomy and flexibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0026 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0043 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0038 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0057 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0041 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from sales tax the trade-in values of motorcycles as well the proceeds received as a result of an unrecovered stolen or total loss of a motorcycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0064 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0006 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Senator James S. D'ambra
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0004 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Melvin L. Zurier
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
Senate read and passed |
