| RI | H5219 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5229 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION -- HOUSING DEVELOPMENT - Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5166 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5167 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Creates the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5203 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5185 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PROHIBITION OF UNFAIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS - Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the fut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5195 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- COMPOSTING AND ORGANIC WASTE DIVERSION - Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5168 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all state licensed healthcare facilities to convert the powering of their operations from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. DOH promulgates rules and regulations to implement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5200 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY EDUCATOR WORKFORCE ACT - Directs the DHS and the department of education to work collaboratively to sustain and strengthen existing workforce development and compensation programs for educators working in licensed chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5172 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- THE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USE BY HEALTH INSURERS TO MANAGE COVERAGE AND CLAIMS ACT - Would promote transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence by health insurers to manage co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5120 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5108 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - Allows internationally trained physicians to practice at healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities and provides a mentorship alternative to the residency requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5119 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5144 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5110 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. Disposition facilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5098 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5099 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5128 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Makes any offense under this statute that could result in the death of an animal punishable by up to 3 years in prison, a fine of at least $1,000, or both, for each offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5082 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- PHYSICAL THERAPY COPAY - Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5080 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5079 | Intro
25% | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5009 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Amending The Rules Of The House Of Representatives For The Years 2023 And 2024 (house Resolution Providing Certain Plastic And Single-use Plastic Cutlery And Beverage Containers Would Not Be Permitted On The House Floor.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Rules Committee |
| RI | H5019 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
