| 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 | 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | H5220 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY -- POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015 - Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5538 | 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 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5259 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Prohibits the suspension of any person’s operators’ or chauffeurs’ license or their vehicle registration unless upon conviction of driving offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| 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 | H5505 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits payments in lieu of pension benefits to person employed more than ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Labor 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 | H5497 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires EOHHS to develop a budget and seek funding to establish an early childhood mental health hub program to improve access to infant and early childhood mental heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5532 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates additional state education funding for the mental and behavioral health of students equal to 2% of the district’s total expenditures, and require those funds be used to hire s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5530 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Beginning on July 1, 2025, allows state union employees to negotiate longevity payments in their collective bargaining agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5527 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- CHILDREN'S MOBILE RESPONSE AND STABILIZATION SERVICES ACT - Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance 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 | 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 | 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 | H5305 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH - Requires employers to protect employees from extreme temperatures through rest breaks, PPE, training, and equipment, and mandates quarterly supervisor training, to recognize and mitigate heat- an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5416 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prohibits auto insurance companies from using certain race and geographical locations criteria when determining insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Corporations 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 | H5452 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Provides that it is the public policy of the state that DCYF be the chief agency responsible for all matters related to children's behavioral health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5468 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Adjusts the motor fuel tax for inflation every two (2) years based on the inflation that has occurred in the previous two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5473 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Creates an additional tax rate of 3% on taxable income over $625,000 in 2025 dollars. Applies to tax years 2026 and thereafter and not retroactively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5121 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Establishes regulation by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5410 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 7th Through The 14th Of 2025, To Be "congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
House read and passed |
| 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 | 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 | H5182 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY - Provides that the cost of maintaining and repairing or restoring an easement or right-of-way shall be shared by each owner of a benefited property and their costs shall be determined by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5158 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS - Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations 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 | 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 | H5166 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5184 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5178 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies10 years after sentence completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5090 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Raymond H. Beretta
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
House read and passed |
| 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 |
| RI | H5061 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Ruth Ann Madsen For Her Service To The People Of Rhode Island On The Occasion Of Her Passing
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H5022 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- AWARD OF MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS - Increases the maximum state and municipal small purchase limits from $10,000 to $25,000 for construction projects and from $5,000 to $10,000 for all other state and municipal purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
