| 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5429 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- THIRD-PARTY HEALTH INSURANCE ADMINISTRATORS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTROL AND TRANSPARENCY - Provides certain controls over prescription drug costs by imposing transparency, oversight and accountability requirements on commercial ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5498 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to monitor and mandate changes to the price-setting practices of pharmacy benefit managers to prohibit t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5508 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Provides that commencing January 1, 2026, the minimum wage shall be twenty-two dollars ($22.00) per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5507 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5487 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Bans preferential treatment to a public or private university applicant because of the student's familial relationship to a previous university attendee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5695 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5821 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Provides amendments to procedures necessary for approval of transactions between utilities by giving the public utilities commission jurisdiction; mandates public hearings, allows...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5940 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND OPPORTUNITY FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ACT - Creates RI opportunity for employee ownership, worker gets notice within seven days of sale of business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5990 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Extends eligibility for lactation counselor services to RIte Start recipients starting October 1, 2025, through the end of their 12 month postpartum period, with coverage p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5866 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a ninety-day (90) supply may be dispensed at any one time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5991 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5974 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5855 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Amends the types of less expensive generic products which pharmacists may prescribe to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent products" and requires the director ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5993 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Commences July 1, 2025, this act would eliminate the provision of this section that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5869 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COUNCIL - Eliminates one of two (2) conflicting versions of the science and technology advisory council authorizing statute, clarifying the structure of the council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5887 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- HOLIDAYS - Changes the name of the holiday on the second Monday of August from Victory Day to Peace and Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5861 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5816 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT - Mandates state and electric distribution companies develop proposals and encourage off shore wind power development and give priority in those projects to providing employment an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5888 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, would be punishable as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5818 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Prohibits public utilities, serving greater 100,000 customers from recovering through rates any direct or indirect cost associated with, amongst other costs, advertising, marketing, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H6019 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Approving The Appropriation Of $1,100,000 Of Funds For Infants And Toddlers In The Department Of Education's Early Childhood Education Categorical Budget (requests Appropriation Of $1,100,000 For Higher Quality Infant And Toddler Ear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5922 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits a peace officer, as defined in § 12-7-21, from employing threats, physical harm, deprivation, deception, coercion, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5858 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Establishes the scope of a certified professional midwife’s authority relating to prescribing medication to patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5916 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Increases the notification time about rent increases and termination of tenancy for month-to-month tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5876 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Creates a permanent special commission to investigate and report on the threat of nuclear weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6003 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW -- AND MODERATE -- INCOME HOUSING - Provides for increases or decreases in the amount of foundation level school support that a community would receive, based upon a community's ability to meet and surpass its minimum low- and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5939 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES -- FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT - Eliminate all exceptions to the provision that all employees are to be paid weekly except for employees of the state and its political subdivisions, municipal governments, and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5811 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- AN ACT ADOPTING THE FEDERAL SECURE AND FAIR ENFORCEMENT FOR MORTGAGE LICENSING ACT OF 2009 - Prohibits an individual who is licensed as both a Rhode Island real estate agent and mortgage loan originator to be compensated for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5849 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Mandates that EOHHS assemble a network of equity zones where local multisector groups of nonprofits, service providers, advocates, community members, state agencies, and municipali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5979 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5927 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIVE CONFINEMENT OVERSIGHT ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6015 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 To The Refugee Dream Center (rdc), $250,000 To Higher Ground International, And $250,000 To Dorcas International Institute Of Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $300,000 To Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5970 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For The Creation Of A Statewide Whole-home Repairs Program (creates 12-member Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For The Creation Of A Statew...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5995 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Provides a three thousand dollar ($3,000) stipend to a qualified applicant who successfully completes the job training program of the department of human services or department of childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5839 | Intro
25% | Expands council on elementary and secondary education and board of education and makes teacher of year and student advisory chair voting members on each.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5913 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRESERVING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE DRUGS - Provides that an agreement resolving a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, is to be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreferenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5813 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Mandates any utility provider from increasing the transmission and distribution fees paid by a consumer for a period of two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5894 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Amends §§ 14-1-3 and 14-5-8, relating to possession of marijuana and proceedings in family court ensuring that children under 17 years of age in possession of less than 2 oz of mari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5928 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE BODY CAMERAS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ACT -- THE WILLIE WASHINGTON, JR. ACT - Establishes The Body Cameras for Correctional Facilities Act which mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5850 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires every individual or group health insurance plan on or after January 1, 2026, that provides benefits to reimburse child service providers for therapy services of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5984 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5904 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides that evidence of life or work expectancy shall be based on statistical data using blended statistics and shall not be based on race, ethnicity or sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5829 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Makes several amendments to the cannabis act relating to applications for licensure, the social equity assistance program and the application of cannabis tax revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5975 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 For The Purchase, Cancellation And Forgiveness Of Medical Debt (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $1,000,000 For The Continued Purchase, Cancellation And Forgiveness Of Medical Debt Cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5931 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Repeals the section of law relating to suspension of operator licenses for failure to pay fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5978 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5815 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Establishes an intervenor support program to provide compensation for an intervenor who makes a substantial contribution to a proceeding resulting in a decision favorable to the interest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
