| RI | H7031 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State - Four Year Terms And Term Limits For Representatives And Senators (proposes An Amendment To The State Constitution, Article I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7029 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Amending The Rules Of The House Of Representatives For The Years 2021 And 2022 (this Resolution Would Amend The House Rules By Providing Term Limits For House Leadership Positions.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-10
To House Rules Committee |
| RI | H6396 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of certain flavored tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6484 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the general assembly to provide race, ethnicity and gender impact statements as to all legislation, addressing the disproportionate impact of the legislation on people of color and gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5553 | Intro
Sine Die | Felony to store firearms unlocked.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-28
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H6458 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the appoint the historian laureate from a five (5) year term to a two (2) year term, and requires the historian laureate to develop and implement programs about pertinent aspects of Rhode Island history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-22
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6219 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows labor organizations/unions to organize any employees who work for employers in an industry that is regulated by the medical marijuana act or cannabis-regulated industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-09
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5955 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects food security and creates agricultural jobs and opportunities with the goal of creating food security. Employs several mechanisms to do so, including the creation of the agriculture jobs bureau, to be located within the division of agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6033 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies existing statutory scheme as it relates to fiscal notes regarding criminal justice and related legislation. Requires the fiscal notes speak to issues of whether the legislation enhances public safety and contains sensible fiscal policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6074 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the housing jobs department and a series of other initiatives designed to create jobs in housing construction, specifically affordable and low-income housing, green and solar energy jobs and programs for low-income individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-25
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5684 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts bicycles from sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5449 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires auditor general to conduct audit of Medicaid programs administered by MCOs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5628 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program which shall be referred to as, "the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (RICHIP)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5811 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the participation and input of the EOHHS, DHS, DCYF and BHDDH in medical assistance and public assistance caseload estimating conferences and the generation of monthly data to the members of the case load estimating conference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6268 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases reimbursement rates for behavioral health providers over a five (5) year period. The minimum increase per year would be four percent (4%) resulting in a total increase of twenty-three and four tenths percent (23.4%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6310 | Intro
Sine Die | TEAM) COMMUNITY ACT (Establishes the Transportation Emission and Mobile (Team) Community Act intended to limit and reduce indirect carbon dioxide emissions throughout the state while promoting the purposes of the transportation climate initiative pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5212 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Rhode Island personal income taxpayers to deduct from their adjusted gross income all medical and dental expenses as allowed by the Internal Revenue Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5528 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5452 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DBR to perform social equity/face analysis in licensing process/arrest/conviction rates by 1/1/22. Removes barriers affecting persons of color/establishes loan program/expunges past criminal convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-29
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5451 | Intro
Sine Die | Apportions remaining revenue in the restricted receipt accounts, after department of health expenses, from the Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act to the distressed communities relief fund and charitable organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-29
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5448 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a Medicaid employees assessment and would require all for profit employers with more than 300 employees to compensate the state 10% of each of their employees' wages, capped of $1500, who are enrolled in Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5993 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides police reform by requiring body cameras and makes certain methods of restraint a felony such as chokeholds and using the foot as a weapon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5995 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the criteria for distinguishing between felonies, misdemeanors and petty misdemeanors. It also changes the interpretation of the phrase "one year" wherever it appears in the general or public laws, to be three hundred sixty-four (364) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6145 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an earned compliance credits system to be used to reduce sentence duration and help reduce prison overcrowding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6171 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits physical sex characteristics surgery for children under 12 years of age, except to address an immediate risk of physical harm. Provides for a private course of action for violations with a 10 year statute of limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5271 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the transfer of any compassion center license to any other owner or location and provides that new compassion center licenses issued by way of lottery be issued only to the location and ownership approved in the application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5683 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the eligibility requirement for many prospective members of the Rhode Island Works' Program making it easier for some to qualify for its benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5309 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a moratorium on non-essential evictions/mortgage foreclosures during a state of emergency declared by the governor relating to residential property and establishes an eviction diversion program to resolve landlord-tenant eviction disputes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5837 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows high school students receiving state Silver/Gold Seal of Biliteracy to earn 2 to 4 semesters of college credit toward minor/major in language at public university/community college if requested within 3 yrs. after high school graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5838 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes concurrent enrollment courses for students enrolled in accelerated world language courses thereby allowing the students to earn credits towards a degree at a state university while contemporaneously earning credits towards high school dip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H6047 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, who successfully completes a course on tobacco cessation therapy, to prescribe and dispense tobacco cessation drug products to a qualified patient pursuant to rules adopted by the board of pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6078 | Intro
Sine Die | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Pass Legislation Establishing An Improved "medicare For All" Single Payer Program That Would Provide Universal, Comprehensive And Affordable Health Care
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5964 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the notarization requirement for various certificates filed by insurance companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5957 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the consideration of an applicant's credit history in determining automobile liability insurance rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5239 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and require funding for a world language and dual language immersion program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5450 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes distress community child enrichment program to provide grants for education in distresses communities apportioned 75% to STEAM programs/25% to academic/non-academic programs with funding from portion of fees paid for center approvals/rene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6017 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals smoke free workplace exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5554 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans firearm magazines that hold ten (10) or more rounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5969 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines rifle and shotguns as weapons and makes unlawful possession of a loaded rifle/shotgun in public with exceptions punishable up to five (5) years in prison or a $5,000 fine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5235 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides school districts may employ LPNs to assist certified nurse teachers. The act also would require that no fewer than one nurse be employed for every seven hundred fifty (750) students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-17
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5652 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates schools, places of worship and courts as sensitive locations and would require that a judicial warrant be obtained before federal immigration authorities could be granted access to those premises to enforce immigration laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5773 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public utilities to maintain a registry of customers utilizing life-sustaining medical devices and to prioritize restoration of power to said customers during power outages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-16
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5640 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individuals, who have not reached the age of eighteen (18) years, to vote in a primary election, as long as the voter will be eighteen (18) as of the date of the general or special election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5983 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State - Of Suffrage (this Joint Resolution Would Propose An Amendment To The State Constitution Eliminating The Thirty-day Reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6000 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the two (2) witness and notary requirement for mail ballot applications and mail ballot certificate envelope. It would also delete the requirement that person may vote by mail, only if they are unable to vote in person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-15
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5761 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits industrial sized factory farming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5475 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedites subcontractor payments for work on state contracts. Establishes new process to help minority business to collect from prime contractors for work on state contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-10
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5570 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires returns of a marriage certificate to be filed within two (2) business days after the ceremony, and would validate the common practice of filing the return by mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5988 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a hospital from claiming a lien on any damages recovered by a Medicaid patient as a result of an accident not covered by workers' compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6012 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually increases the tipped minimum wage from the current $3.89 to $14.95 commencing January 1, 2026 and on January 1, 2027 the tipped minimum wage shall be no less than the minimum wage established by the minimum wage law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-10
To House Labor Committee |
