| RI | H5251 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS AND DUTIES TEACHERS GENERALLY -- SEPTEMBER 11 CLASSROOM MOMENT OF SILENCE - Allows teachers in all grades to provide the opportunity for students to observe a brief moment of silence on every September 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Education 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 | 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 | H5273 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires all lifeguards, and park rangers, to be trained in administering opioid antagonists, and would require all public beaches to keep available a minimum of four doses of opi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5278 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- MILITARY CHILD ACT - Defines "military-connected student", "advance enrollment" and "open enrollment" to give them flexibility in choosing a school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5387 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Adds “space force” to the branches of the military included in various sections of general law regarding the veterans home, veterans cemetery and the power of armed forces officers to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5469 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Appropriates two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the micro-loan program for FY 25-26.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5455 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990 - Defines "anti-Semitism" for the state human affairs commission to use while investigating and working to resolve complaints of discrimination and for the commission against prejudice and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5456 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Requires a seventy-five percent (75%) supermajority vote by the board of directors to establish a quorum and to approve any action taken by the commerce corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5356 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DETERMINATION OF NEED FOR NEW HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES - Limits the application fees paid under the certificate of need program within the department of health to twenty-five thousand dollars ($2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5406 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand eight hundred pounds (8,800 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5355 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DETERMINATION OF NEED FOR NEW HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES - Repeals the certificate of need process statutes which are used by the department of health to determine the need for new health care equi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5393 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5399 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5392 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Provides that a family eligible for cash assistance pursuant to § 40-5.2-11, shall if qualified, be provided SNAP benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5295 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5261 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits, effective 7/1/25, the family court to make appropriate orders of support and education of any child who has attained 18 years of age, but not 21, who is domiciled in the home of a parent, and is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5240 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The 82nd Anniversary Of The "four Chaplains", The Four Men Of God Who Sacrificed Their Lives During World War Ii So That Others Might Live
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H5232 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Authorizes early voting for the ten (10) calendar days except the second weekend prior immediately preceding election day, while requiring, as is practicable, that all the election day protections and procedures be afforde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5213 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating President Donald J. Trump And Vice President James David Vance On Their Election, And Recognizing The 2024 Election As An Historic Election
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5177 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations, for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse, to thirty-five (35) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5137 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Provides that the state board of elections shall verify the citizenship status of all persons on the voter registration list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5011 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Amending The Rules Of The House Of Representatives For The Years 2023 And 2024 (prohibits Flags Or Banners Of Any Size From Being Displayed On Any Member's Desk Within The House Chamber.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Rules Committee |
