| RI | S2154 | Pass | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- BIRDS - Allows the taking of wild turkeys by using a crossbow in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by DEM. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-29 Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2078 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS - Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2153 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issues relating to the control of aquatic invasi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2150 | Pass | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A COVERED ANIMAL - Exempts egg laying hens kept for commercial egg production purposes from the provisions of chapter 4-1.1 until January 1, 2028. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2635 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2112 | Pass | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP AND GUARDIANSHIP OF ADULTS - Provides that supported decision-making pursuant to chapter 66.13 of title 42 be added to the Limited Guardianship and Guardianship of Adults forms section as one of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20 Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2997 | Pass | AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT AND ESTABLISHING THE CLEAR RIVER ELECTRIC AND WATER DISTRICT - Amends the Harrisville Fire District Charter allowing the district to provide rescue services, fire suppression, medical and ambulanc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-17 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2816 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Provides for procedures for the burial of unclaimed remains. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3030 | Pass | Authorizes the Town of Glocester to finance the renovation and/or expansion of Glocester police station and to issue not more than $10,700,000 bonds and notes therefore. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2019 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-05 To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | S2862 | Pass | Enabling act required by § 16-7-44 in order for the principal of, and interest on bonds issued by the Town of Burrillville in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2008 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2012 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- SURPLUS FUNDS TAX CREDIT ACT - Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the tax... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2052 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Repeals the corporation minimum tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2114 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2339 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ADJUDICATION OF TRAFFIC OFFENSES - Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2348 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 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 operations... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2010 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-28 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2057 | Intro
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Establishes ongoing two percent (2%) regionalization bonus to Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2061 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2338 | Intro
Sine Die | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Secures general assembly appropriations in lieu of property taxes for state-owned properties within the town of Exeter. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2563 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) of social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S3035 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSE ANESTHETISTS - Establishes that the elective and/or independent administration of propofol and all FDA classified general anesthetics for any surgery or procedure is not within the "scope of practice" of nurse prac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| RI | S2545 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Increases the membership of the energy facility siting board from 3 to 5 members and would revise the process of energy facility siting to mandate inclusion/participation of the host commun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2110 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2230 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2506 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires the public utilities commission (PUC) to produce a report by January 1, 2025 and each January 1 thereafter, on the ability for the current electric grid to handle the electrifica... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2556 | Intro
Sine Die | PROPERTY -- FIRST TIME HOME BUYER SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT - Establishes the first time home buyer savings program act. Allows modifications to federal adjusted gross income for $50,000 in contributions and $150,000 of interest and dividends included in f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2509 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD - Requires the PUC to make public notification of any changes in eligibility or production of energy, and would direct the commission to promulgate rules and regulations to allow and facilita... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2023 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Extends the "lookback" period for repeat offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs under § 31-27-2 and for repeat offenses related to failure or refusal to submit to chemi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2464 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public meetings involving collective bargaining agreements of school teachers shall be open to the public. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S2537 | Intro
Sine Die | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- ORGANIC FARMING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM - Establishes the organic farming and certification program to be administered by the department of environmental management. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10 To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S2507 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2198 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2192 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2266 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLAR PANELS - Requires that all sales representatives selling or leasing solar panels are licensed by the department of business regulation and that a statement be provided to homeowners setting forth pertinent informat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2077 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Amends the law on nursing home minimum staffing requirements in order that any penalty incurred in calendar years 2022 and 2023 would be abated. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2105 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2679 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Provides for free APRA records, DOA manages all APRA Records, and uses an online database for records. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2619 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2024, and restores access to telemedicine for all residents and allows treatment by ou... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2053 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2340 | Intro
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM - Establishes a new program where the per pupil funding, calculated annually by RIDE, would be transferred into a newly created educational funding account run by the children's scholarship fund to pay f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2017 | Intro
Sine Die | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Provides another method for municipalities to identify and calculate private residences as low- and moderate-income housing. This method is in addition to and not in lieu of other methods permitte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2016 | Intro
Sine Die | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Allows municipalities without public transportation extending to urban service boundaries to reduce the low- or moderate-income housing requirements from 10% to 6%. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2103 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2108 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits Rhode Island residents, 21 years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2111 | Intro
Sine Die | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2107 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2199 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows an individual to lawfully possess a device that would silence the sound of a natural report of a rifle or shotgun to hunt game, as long as the host rifle or shotgun is allowed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2231 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |