| RI | H5305 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH - Requires employers to protect employees from extreme temperatures through rest breaks, PPE, training, and equipment, and mandates quarterly supervisor training, to recognize and mitigate heat- an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5331 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LENDERS AND LOAN BROKERS - Removes the licensing exemption for a lender that originates less than six (6) loans in twelve (12) consecutive months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5349 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5390 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5400 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES - Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5339 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Provides that for the period up until July 1, 2027, an applicant for a teaching certificate in Rhode Island would not be required to complete a standardized teacher's examination as a prerequisite to obtaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5365 | Intro
25% | FIDUCIARIES -- APPLICATION OF LAWS TO TRUSTS - Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5362 | Intro
25% | Allows eligible individuals serving sentences of imprisonment to seek sentence reductions from the superior court, individuals serving life without parole or minimum mandatory sentences pursuant to law, would not be eligible for such relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5381 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Amends several statutes relating to elections and the dates for primaries and dates within which to file nomination papers and object to nomination papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5346 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibit the family court from detaining any juvenile or committing any juvenile, under the age of 12 years, to the training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5404 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION - Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5361 | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5379 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- COMMISSION ON PARDONS - Establishes a commission to promulgate rules, regulations and make recommendations to the governor as to petitions for pardons under Article IX, Section 13 of the Constitution of Rhode...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5395 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows an appeal of the valuation of a motor vehicle, upon which the sales tax is calculated, when registering the motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5171 | 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] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5303 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINT HISTORY TRANSPARENCY ACT - Establishes a searchable database of healthcare professionals' complaint histories, accessible to employers. License holders can review and dispute inaccuracies, while ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5030 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Grants the town council of the town of South Kingstown the authority to enact a homestead exemption ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| 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 | H5276 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Establishes the Ranked Choice Voting for Rhode Island Presidential Primaries and provides for new sections on ranked choice voting tabulation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5260 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program pursuant to ยง 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 | H5273 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires all lifeguards, and park rangers, to be trained in administering opioid antagonists, and would require all public beaches to keep available a minimum of four doses of opi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5284 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5256 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- EQUAL PAY FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - Provides for equal pay for healthcare providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| 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 | H5227 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5230 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5209 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Anthony Eugene Piccirilli
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5211 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The Celebration Of The Lunar New Year "the Year Of The Snake" On January 29th Of 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| 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
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 | 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 | H5091 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Hilding T. Munson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
House read and passed |
| RI | H5092 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Andrea Marie Hopkins
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
House read and passed |
| 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 | H5047 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5058 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Senator James S. D'ambra
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H5063 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Rufina Delizo Rice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H5038 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Edward Clark Parker, A Highly Respected Judge On The Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal For Three Decades
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H5020 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGAN-DONATION LEAVE ACT - Provides for paid leave for a state employee who donates an organ. The duration of the leave is dependent on the type of donation and notice should be provided to the employer at least thirt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
