| RI | H5236 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Subjects residential properties which are a part of certain federal programs to a 12% tax of the prior year's rental income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5377 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILD ADVOCATE OFFICE - Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5444 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS - Defines slowing a vehicle for purposes of the “move over law” (§ 31-14-3) to mean twenty miles per hour (20 mph) under the posted speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5454 | Intro
25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- COMMITTEES AND STAFF - Requires nonprofit, as a condition for requesting state funds from the general assembly, to submit & post on their website, a list of10 of their highest paid director, officer & employee salaries & any forms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5718 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES -- THE POWERS AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES - Expands the DCYF powers by overseeing and administer comprehensive behavioral health services for children with serious emotional distu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5332 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND SPECIAL DEPOSITS ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Special Deposits Act to be governed by an account agreement between the bank and the depositor or its beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5917 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits the mandatory rental registry to properties constructed prior to 1978, and further push out the effective date of registration to September 1, 2025, with the penalty clause becoming effective a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5879 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Provides a definition for antisemitism to be used by state agencies to evaluate whether discrimination is present.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5935 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS -- CONCEALED CARRY REFORM - Expands firearm rights to recognize out of state carry permits, authorizes weapons carried during emergency evacuation and establishes an appeal process for permit denied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5906 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Substitutes "housing resources commission" with "department of health" for lead hazard mitigation purposes. It also makes it easier for a property owner to release funds put into an escrow acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5873 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Requires verification of an applicant's date of birth and either a Rhode Island driver's license number or state identification number on all applications seeking mail ballots and emergency mail ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5936 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5925 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6009 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Authorizes a retroactive tax credit for tax yr 2026/thereafter/allowing investment tax credits to be passed through to the personal income tax returns of eligible Sub-S corporation shareholders/limited liability comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5918 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Requires landlords of residential properties built before 1978 to register lead hazard mitigation information with the department of health and the information would be private and only accessible by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5875 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT - Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5885 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows holders of a Class P license to purchase alcoholic beverages from either a retail or wholesale establishment in the State of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H5883 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES - Mandates municipalities to participate in the parking mobility app program where individuals may submit photos on the app of vehicles that are parked in spaces designated for individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6000 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LICENSING AND MONITORING OF CHILD PLACING AGENCIES, CHILD CARING AGENCIES, FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES, AND CHILDREN’S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS - Requires all out-of-state foster care placement facilities be register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5886 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H5856 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VACCINATION, TESTING, AND MASK MANDATES PROHIBITION - Prohibits any person mandating a COVID-19 vaccination without providing individual exemptions that allow a person to opt out of such mandate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5877 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Allows that public records stored in a computer system, upon request, be provided at no charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5924 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6014 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax firearm safety equipment, storage devices, gun safes, gun cabinets, gun vaults, gun cases, strong boxes, cable locks, trigger locks and biometric locks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5934 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5957 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Specifies that low and moderate income housing exists when a city or town has adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring that all housing developments include at least fifty percent (50%) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5999 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Amends the pension benefits for both current and former Rhode Island state police members, and would extend the time period a member may serve in the Rhode Island state police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5831 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- SENIOR SAVINGS PROTECTION ACT - Requires anyone engaged in the sale of goods or services, and who offers a discount to its customers’ for utilizing automatic payment systems, via ACH or EFT or simi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5830 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- AGE-APPROPRIATE DESIGN CODE - Requires that any covered entity that develops/provides online services, products, or features that children are reasonably likely to access shall consider the best inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5880 | Intro
25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- AUDITOR GENERAL - Requires the auditor general to conduct performance audits of all state agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5962 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- INDEBTEDNESS OF TOWNS AND CITIES - Requires a municipality or quasi-public agency to file a report with the department of municipal finance if it has not made its payment to its other post-employment benefits trust fund or if it i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5943 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Provides all employees of retail establishments with 15 or more employees engaged in work during Sundays or holidays shall receive from their employer no less than time and a half and shall be guarante...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5845 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROTECTION - Requires Rhode Island water suppliers to prepare a resilience assessment and a response plan for the risk of flooding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5994 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Requires the department of environmental management to develop, identify, maintain and update a list of projects that qualify for forest and open space land conservation funding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5938 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT -- OFFENSES AND PENALTIES - Provides that enhanced penalties for possession of fentanyl shall only be applicable if the substance contains \ at least ten percent (10%) of fentanyl or its analogs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6008 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Allows an income tax credit for employer contributions to an eligible employee's ABLE account, for a maximum credit of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per employee, per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5944 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Defines employees as individuals employed by a municipality or state covered by a collective bargaining agreement or employment contract, and would redefine an "employer" to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5025 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H5034 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5215 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that health clubs must discontinue automatic deductions from the consumer's account or credit card within 30 calendar days of receiving a notice to stop from the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H5231 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | H5341 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- REGULATION OF BOATS -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Authorizes the collection of a small additional fee, in addition to the registration fee paid by motorboat owners, to be deposited in a restricted account, in order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5342 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Establishes an agricultural restricted receipt account within the department of environmental management. An advisory committee would be established to determine suggested uses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5753 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- BUSINESS CORPORATION TAX - Exempts subchapter S corporations in the first year of existence from paying the minimum tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5690 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - This act would repeal the chapter entitled "Low and Moderate Income Housing".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5607 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Redefines “farm” by reducing the amount of revenue from farm products required to be sold from ten thousand ($10,000) to two thousand five hundred doll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5589 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES - Prohibits a person under the age of sixteen (16) from being in a rideshare vehicle such as Uber or Lyft alone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Corporations 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 | H5689 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Defines multi-family housing project as over 60 units in municipality with less than 35k residents, also provides for pre-approval conference with local board for review of plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5610 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE - Requires the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative to reducing carbon emiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
