| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary 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 | 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 | H5514 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5491 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires the department of elementary and secondary education and DOH to adopt policies, rules and regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Education 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 | H5507 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5496 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5494 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5537 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- MENTAL HEALTH LAW - Provides that advanced practice registered nurses have the same immunity from liability as physicians and surgeons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5028 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor 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 | H5366 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor 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] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5415 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES - Provides standards for developing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Corporations 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 | H5472 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT - Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 2.89% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5459 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Right To An Adequate Education (amends The Constitution To Guarantee Rhode Island Residents With Equal Opportunity To Receive An Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5477 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Establish A Statewide Main Street Coordinating Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Formal Establishment Of “main Street Rhode Island”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance 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 | 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 | 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 | H5263 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Amends the heading of § 11-47-60.1 to include the words "Dillon's Law."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations 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 | H5390 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5350 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5023 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5171 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HARM REDUCTION CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PILOT PROGRAM - Removes the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers and creates a permanent pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5325 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Gloria Messerlian
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
House read and passed |
| 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 |
| RI | H5300 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary 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 | H5318 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5109 | Intro
25% | THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE -- TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE AMENDMENTS - 2022) (Implements technical corrections to the transition rules for transactions governed by 2024 Public Laws Chapters 65 and 66 regarding security intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5214 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- PSITTACINE BIRDS - Bans the sale of parrots at pet stores from a breeder or broker. The pet store may sell parrots obtained from animal care facilities or animal rescue organizations. The sale would also be prohibited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations 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 | H5228 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SUPPORTS ACT OF 2025 - Ensures that more developmentally disabled adults can self-direct the care they need and want, by incorporating collective bargaining righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5007 | Pass | House Resolution Adopting The Rules Of The House Of Representatives For The Years 2025 And 2026
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H5211 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing The Celebration Of The Lunar New Year "the Year Of The Snake" On January 29th Of 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| 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 | 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] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5094 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Condolences On The Passing Of Martin E. Cooper
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
House read and passed |
| 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 | H5055 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Amos House (would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Amos House.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5037 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming January Of 2025, To Be "firefighter Cancer Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
House read and passed |
