| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5019 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5046 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Placed on House Calendar (02/27/2025) |
| RI | H5074 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (rirrc) To Conduct A Recycling/waste Audit On The Rhode Island State House And Provide Recommendations For A Waste Reduction Strategy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5185 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PROHIBITION OF UNFAIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS - Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the fut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5168 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all state licensed healthcare facilities to convert the powering of their operations from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. DOH promulgates rules and regulations to implement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5235 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5269 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5303 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINT HISTORY TRANSPARENCY ACT - Establishes a searchable database of healthcare professionals' complaint histories, accessible to employers. License holders can review and dispute inaccuracies, while ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5343 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5348 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 ("commercial sexual activity"). It would also allow the option for HIV te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5358 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5340 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Requires the producer of artificial turf and turf infill sold or distributed in Rhode Island to report its chain of custody, from installation to use, repurposing, recycling and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5357 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5353 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5424 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE SUPERFUND ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act cost recovery program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5492 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Creates the Microplastics Reduction Act to prohibit the sale or distribution of products containing synthetic polymer micro particles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Natural Resources 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 | H5509 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Requires the state building commissioner to implement electronic permitting for any category of state or local permit authorized under state law to significantly impact the expediency of construction and dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5536 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $200,000 To Be Used For Incentives For Fruits And Vegetables Sold At Participating Bonus Bucks Outlets In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $200,000 For Incentives For The Farm Fresh ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5493 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5087 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE CHILDREN'S CARDIAC SAFETY ACT - Establishes "The Children's Cardiac Safety Act", and provide for childhood cardiac screening based on modules that incorporate current best practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education 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 | H5426 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5425 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION -- STATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS METRICS - Requires that the division of planning create a checklist of environmental and energy issues that state construction projects which cost in excess o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5470 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2026 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2026 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November, 2026, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5436 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5430 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5422 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL WASTE RECYCLING AND REFUSE DISPOSAL - Amends the certain provisions relative to school waste recycling and refuse disposal and requires reports of waste audits by educational entities and reports of program participation by vendor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5450 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- ALL-ELECTRIC BUILDING ACT - Provides that no city or town may issue a permit for the construction of new buildings, that are not an all-electric building, if the initial application for a permit was submitted after Decemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5446 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits a tenant, at the tenant’s expense, to implement energy conservation measures to any dwelling or dwelling unit such as removable weather-stripping around doors and windows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5186 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends current law on controlled substances to permit psilocybin to be cultivated within a person's residence for personal use and contingent on the US FDA's program, mandate that RI department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5176 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STUDENT COMPUTER DEVICE PRIVACY - Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5157 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5274 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5396 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5397 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5376 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate would be divided equally b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5381 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Amends several statutes relating to elections and the dates for primaries and dates within which to file nomination papers and object to nomination papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5373 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Defines a quorum of the building code standards committee be a majority of the current board members and amends the state building code to require that sections provide that dwelling units from one to four (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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 | H5377 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILD ADVOCATE OFFICE - Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5384 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5345 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program for all children in the care and custody of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5098 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5099 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5167 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Creates the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5320 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Prohibits the Rhode Island medical assistance program and managed care organizations that it contracts with from requiring prior authorization or step therapy protocol for a prescription of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
