| RI | H5029 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at $16 per hour, 2027 at $17 per hour, 2028 at $18 per hour, 2029 at $19 per hour and for 2030 at $20 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5026 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services 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] | 2025-02-28
Placed on House Calendar (03/04/2025) |
| RI | H5129 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Provides for a residency requirement of at least six (6) months rather than one year for the Rhode Island family court to have jurisdiction over a divorce complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5173 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglyce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Health & Human Services 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5507 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5548 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- VOLUNTARY RESTRUCTURING OF SOLVENT INSURERS - Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5586 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5585 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5549 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- RHODE ISLAND PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION - Provides a framework through which the department of business regulation can seek grants to fund a home hardening program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5636 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Provides that operators of virtual currency kiosks must provide customers with a paper receipt, electronic receipt, or both of the transaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5895 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Requires submission of a domestic violence/sexual assault reporting form when the domestic violence response or investigation involves a verbal argument or dispute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5909 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Makes all causes of action based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child not subject to any statute of limitations whether the claim has lapsed or was previously time-barred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5887 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- HOLIDAYS - Changes the name of the holiday on the second Monday of August from Victory Day to Peace and Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5912 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides for fair and reasonable charges for certain medical and health care services in civil actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5952 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION - Provides for a home ownership assistance account administered by Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation to expand home ownership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5811 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- AN ACT ADOPTING THE FEDERAL SECURE AND FAIR ENFORCEMENT FOR MORTGAGE LICENSING ACT OF 2009 - Prohibits an individual who is licensed as both a Rhode Island real estate agent and mortgage loan originator to be compensated for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5914 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Limits the recovery for personal injuries actions against any town to $3,000 retroactive to all causes of action arising after January 1, 2025, and prohibits the use of subsequent remedial measures i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5927 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIVE CONFINEMENT OVERSIGHT ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5901 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES - Provides additional exception to prohibition on usage of wireless communication device while driving and clarifies that use for purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5926 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Creates a cause of action for the intentional or negligent injury or death of a pet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5992 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends the Rhode Island works program to allow lawful permanent residents to receive benefits without a waiting period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5913 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRESERVING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE DRUGS - Provides that an agreement resolving a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, is to be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreferenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5813 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Mandates any utility provider from increasing the transmission and distribution fees paid by a consumer for a period of two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5937 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- UNIFORM PARTITION OF HEIRS' PROPERTY ACT - Adopts the uniform partition of heirs property act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5904 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides that evidence of life or work expectancy shall be based on statistical data using blended statistics and shall not be based on race, ethnicity or sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5829 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Makes several amendments to the cannabis act relating to applications for licensure, the social equity assistance program and the application of cannabis tax revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5911 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY - Caps damages at $100,000 in tort actions against Rhode Island, cities, towns, or fire districts, except for willful misconduct or extreme recklessness. It also exempts them from § 9-21-10.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5841 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5915 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Exempts recovery claims for damages due to a town's neglect in maintaining highways or bridges from the provisions of chapter 31 of title 9 on governmental tort liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5046 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-27
House read and passed |
| 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] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5035 | Engross
50% | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows Ryan Kenny and Brenna Sorkin to join Simran Bhajan Nebhnani and Louis Charles Miyara in marriage on April 26, 2025, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Placed on Senate Calendar (03/04/2025) |
| RI | H5553 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that stores offering food product discounts must provide the same discounts to in store customers that are offered to customers using electronic digital coupons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5775 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other intervention...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5617 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCT SAFETY AND TOXIC METAL REMOVAL ACT OF 2025 - Sets a clear and enforceable standard for reducing the presence of harmful metals in personal care products, prioritizing public health through testing, la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5671 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMPUTER CRIME - Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharrassment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5600 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- ESTABLISHMENT OF CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Amends provisions related to the legislative purpose for alternatives within the public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5556 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PSYCHOLOGISTS - Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists and expands the licensing of school psychologists for independent practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5655 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5714 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5611 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5665 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing the interaction with encampments and include the right to access clean and sanitary conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5740 | Intro
25% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNCLAIMED INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Permits the division of unclaimed property within the office of the general treasurer to accept miscellaneous intangible property belonging to Rhode Island residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5646 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTS - Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5738 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5790 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $90,000,000 To The Rhode Island Executive Office Of Health And Human Services To Support Physician Reimbursement Rate Increases In The Rhode Island Medicaid Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5637 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CREDIT CARD CRIME ACT - Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5662 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- FRAUD AND FALSE DEALING - Established crime of real estate title fraud and creates private cause of action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
