| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5247 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provide that advertising goods that don't include a price referencing all mandatory fees and charges shall be a deceptive trade practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5246 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT - Establishes a digital electronics right to repair, which would allow for digital electronic equipment and parts that are sold in this state on or after Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5405 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Establishes a restricted receipt account for the benefit of the Rhode Island public transit authority, funded by sales taxes collected from ride-share companies, which said sales taxes wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5375 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit municipalities and water suppliers to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements and permit tenants to request and schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5382 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections 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 | H5050 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund.
[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 | H5313 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Proclaiming February 4, 2025, As "transit Equity Day" In The State Of Rhode Island In Honor Of Rosa Parks And Her Historic Fight For Equitable Public Transit
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Special Legislation 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5310 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND ACT - Restructures the Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increases its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and realloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5309 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to five thousand dollars ($6,000) with respect to municipal taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5308 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits every municipality in the state to offer a homestead tax exemption of up to 20% of assessed value on residential properties, and also provides that municipalities that grant greater exemptions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5321 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILD CARE FOR ALL ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Child Care for All Act which would provide high quality and affordable child care to families throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5081 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS -- VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION CHECKS - Waives the fees for vehicle identification number inspections for veterans, including active duty military personnel and members of the Nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5100 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Authorizes municipalities to make an emergency declaration under limited circumstances to allow for the construction and use of SAVE Units on a temporary basis which have sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5155 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS - Provides that architects and other authorized disaster response workers be considered, in the course of performing their duties, state workers and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5250 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Adds Juneteenth National Freedom Day to the definition of "holidays" to the chapter governing retail business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5264 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually unless the landlord is granted an exemption by the secretary of housing and provides tenants with a civil action to recover damages, including an awar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5267 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS - Requires a housing code enforcement officer to give a copy of any housing code violation notice to all tenants of the building affected by a housing code violation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5279 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS RETIREMENT - Gives teachers who takes an unpaid parental or medical leave during the year credit for a year of service for that school year if they served a minimum of 135 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5225 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE PROTECTED SPACES ACT - Limits the ability for any federal immigration authority to investigate, detain, apprehend or arrest any individuals for potential violations of federal immigration laws without a judicial wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5226 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Condemning President Donald Trump's Executive Order To Withdraw Citizenship From Children Born In The United States To Undocumented Parents
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5229 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION -- HOUSING DEVELOPMENT - Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5169 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACT - Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5172 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- THE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USE BY HEALTH INSURERS TO MANAGE COVERAGE AND CLAIMS ACT - Would promote transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence by health insurers to manage co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5161 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Joint Legislative Commission To Study Public Ownership Of Public Utilities (creates A Special Joint Legislative Study Commission To Study Public Ownership Of Certain Public Utilities, Including Electricity And Natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5149 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating Funda Fest 27 And The Contributions Of The Ri Black Storytellers (ribs) From January 17th-26th, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H5120 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5068 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TERMINATION OF SERVICE TO PERSONS WHO ARE DISABLED, SERIOUSLY ILL, OR IN ARREARS OF PAYMENT - Extends the forbearance of utility terminations for customers with serious illness certifications and would amend various p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5086 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Four Year Terms For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article Iv, Section 1, T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5010 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Amending The Rules Of The House Of Representatives For The Years 2023 And 2024 (authorizes The Speaker And The Rhode Island Black, Latino, Indigenous, Asian American And Pacific Islander (riblia) Caucus To Request Equity Impact State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Rules Committee |
| RI | H5042 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES - Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Corporations Committee |
