| 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] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5529 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5533 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Reinstates general revenue sharing of state aid among the 39 cities and towns in Rhode Island. The initial amount is based upon population, and increased annually thereafter based on the increase in the Consumer Price ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5499 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Seeks to promote increased consumer access to Medicare supplement health insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5535 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax behind-the-meter batteries interconnected with a solar photovoltaic system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5507 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5519 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE - Repeals authorizing Rhode Island to join an interstate compact, which would allow Presidents and Vice Presidents to be elected by a national popular vote rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5515 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Suffrage (would Propose To The Voters Of The State A Constitutional Amendment Regarding Eligibility To Vote And To Be A Candidate....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5034 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5028 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor 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] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5188 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. This act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5193 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE FIRE MARSHAL - Creates a voluntary program through which registrants of electric and hybrid motor vehicles can request stickers to affix to enclosures housing such vehicles to promote first responders' safety in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5366 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5447 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5431 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that individuals enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B guaranteed right to enroll in standardized plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5464 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Repeals the exemption granted to pari-mutuel facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement and provides for a one time appropriate of $1,000,000 to inform patrons of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5448 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Eliminates the "until June 30, 2025" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5459 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Right To An Adequate Education (amends The Constitution To Guarantee Rhode Island Residents With Equal Opportunity To Receive An Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5453 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Replaces CRMC with a newly created division of coastal resources management, a state entity within the DEM and would transfer all authority to the DEM with duties and responsibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5454 | Intro
25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- COMMITTEES AND STAFF - Requires nonprofit, as a condition for requesting state funds from the general assembly, to submit & post on their website, a list of10 of their highest paid director, officer & employee salaries & any forms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5025 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5017 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5342 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Establishes an agricultural restricted receipt account within the department of environmental management. An advisory committee would be established to determine suggested uses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5027 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Provides that any law or regulation which prohibits or protects a person from exposure to second-hand smoke would include second-hand marijuana smoke or vapor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5023 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5051 | Intro
25% | RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet Bridge.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5141 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Establishes a motor vehicle license plate to honor Roger Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5191 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE EMBLEMS - Designates as the state music, the genre of rhythm and blues which contains elements of pop, soul, funk, hip-hop, and electronic music.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation 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 | H5317 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5318 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5109 | Intro
25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE -- TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE AMENDMENTS - 2022) (Implements technical corrections to the transition rules for transactions governed by 2024 Public Laws Chapters 65 and 66 regarding security intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5183 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Allows lane filtering, the act of passing stopped or slow-moving vehicles proceeding in the same direction, for motorcycles at low speeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5282 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amend the calculation of state funding provided to local education agencies for special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5281 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5238 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Violet Rose Little
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
House read and passed |
| 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 | H5228 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SUPPORTS ACT OF 2025 - Ensures that more developmentally disabled adults can self-direct the care they need and want, by incorporating collective bargaining righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5233 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT ACT - Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Finance 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 | H5196 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5197 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5175 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NOTIFICATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS, POLICE OFFICERS AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AFTER EXPOSURE TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES - Amends the definition of infectious diseases to include the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5148 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Sylvia "siggy" Weber, Beloved Psychiatric Nurse Leader, Healer, And Veteran Of The Air Force And U.s. Army Reserves
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H5119 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5145 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS - Allows for trucks with a gross vehicle weight of eight thousand pounds (8,000 lbs.) or less to have passenger registration license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5144 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Finance 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 |
