| RI | H5108 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - Allows internationally trained physicians to practice at healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities and provides a mentorship alternative to the residency requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5107 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PATIENT BROKERING ACT - Prohibits the practice of patient brokering and would provide monetary penalties and enforcement by the office of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5293 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5363 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT -- POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL -- CIVIL FORFEITURE PROCEDURE - Prohibits civil asset forfeiture regarding violations of the controlled substances laws until a criminal conviction is obtained.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5369 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from property taxation, the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5359 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEARCH WARRANTS -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATION AND COMPLAINTS -- BILL OF RIGHTS ENHANCEMENT - Requires law enforcement to obtain consent before placing audio or video recorders on the private property of another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5386 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Jury Nullification As Proper Trial Defense Argument (this Joint Resolution Would Propose To The Voters A Constitutional Amendment Whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5465 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM - Establishes a single-payer health care insurance system, consolidating public and private payments into a more efficient Medicare-for-all style program, funded by progress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5510 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant within sixty (60) days after th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5503 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5523 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5488 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5502 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5501 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Prohibits the courts from setting cash or surety bail on any misdemeanor offense but permits the court to set reasonable non-monetary conditions of bail to assure the defendant's presence in court as requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5132 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Prohibits psychological abuse in the workplace by employers or co-workers, ensuring a safe environment for employees, provides protection, civil remedies, and penalties for employers b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5138 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT - Prohibits lobbyists from making any political contributions to any member of the general assembly from January 1 through July 1 in any year, unless the general assembly adjourns f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5387 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Adds “space force” to the branches of the military included in various sections of general law regarding the veterans home, veterans cemetery and the power of armed forces officers to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5336 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS - Amends the composition of the Urban Collaborative and provide that the collaborative be governed by a board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5434 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Protect Patients And Traditional Medicare From Medicare Advantage
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5439 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Mandates that the clerk of the district court, upon request of the defendant, automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5467 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Extends allocation of motor fuel tax to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Fund through 2025. Changes the allocation to 30% total proceeds, including 30% from the one cent per gallon environmental prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5441 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Reduces the time for expungements to three (3) years for a single misdemeanor and five (5) years for felonies and multiple misdemeanors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5475 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5456 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Requires a seventy-five percent (75%) supermajority vote by the board of directors to establish a quorum and to approve any action taken by the commerce corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5122 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT ACT - Establishes a statewide broadband community outreach coordinator to assist state residents interested in learning more and/or applying for the federal Affordable Connectivity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5123 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT - Requires DOA provide inventory of all state agencies using artificial intelligence (AI); establishes a 13 member permanent commission to monitor the use of AI in state gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5411 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 11, 2025, As "the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment/black Regiment Recognition Day" To Commemorate The Contributions Of Black Soldiers During The American Revolutionary War
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
House read and passed |
| 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 | H5330 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that amendments to §§ 34-36.1-1.03 and 34-36.1-3.08 are applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, provides a definition for the term “special assessment” and allows unit owners to participate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5394 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND MOTOR VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Provides that when a registrant voluntarily cancels the registrant's motor vehicle registration, that person would receive a partial refund of the fee that had been paid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5398 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Revises the calculation for the student success factor in the education-aid formula by adding an additional multiplier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance 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 | H5374 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- RHODE ISLAND INCLUSIVE HOME DESIGN ACT - Establishes a new article in the state building code that provides that certain new housing construction contain at least one floor that meets the requirements for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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 | H5335 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE - Nullifies the department of elementary and secondary education recommendation that the turnaround plan for Providence public schools be continued.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5391 | Intro
25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- PREFERENCE FOR RESIDENTS - Provides Rhode Island residents over nonresidents with priority when making reservations to secure a campsite and other recreational facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5117 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Requires that all cosmetics manufactured, sold, delivered, held or offered for sale contain a label that completely and accurately list all of their component ingredients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5328 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February Of 2025 As “american Heart Month” In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H5327 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 6th, 2025, To Be "new England Freedmen's Aid Society Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H5326 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating “national Women Physicians Day” On February 3, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H5297 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5323 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Sojourner House In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Sojourner House To Support Its Permanent Housing Development Program That Provides Safe, Secure Housing To...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5314 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- THE PARKING SERVICES TAXATION ACT - Grants municipalities the authority to impose a parking services sales tax on parking lots and parking structures that charge for parking services through an ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5322 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5304 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT - Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would be required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation frin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5101 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMERGENCY SHELTERS - Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters for homeless persons, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5102 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates a commission to establish homeless shelter standards through regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5118 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- POLICE OFFICERS -- COMMISSION ON STANDARDS AND TRAINING - Requires mandatory training standards for police officers and trainees, in identifying, responding, and handling all incidents involving any person with a devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/06/2025) |
