| RI | H5117 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Requires that all cosmetics manufactured, sold, delivered, held or offered for sale contain a label that completely and accurately list all of their component ingredients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5327 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February 6th, 2025, To Be "new England Freedmen's Aid Society Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H5326 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating “national Women Physicians Day” On February 3, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
House read and passed |
| RI | H5297 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5306 | Intro
25% | SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION -- CAPITAL CENTER COMMISSION - Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5311 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House State Government & Elections 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 | H5314 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- THE PARKING SERVICES TAXATION ACT - Grants municipalities the authority to impose a parking services sales tax on parking lots and parking structures that charge for parking services through an ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5319 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance 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 | H5304 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT - Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would be required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation frin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5296 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT - Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5307 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5071 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5070 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5101 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMERGENCY SHELTERS - Establishes rules and procedures for licensing emergency shelters for homeless persons, including setting minimum standards and prohibiting the charging of fees to the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5102 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Creates a commission to establish homeless shelter standards through regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5158 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS - Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5250 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Adds Juneteenth National Freedom Day to the definition of "holidays" to the chapter governing retail business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5287 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming February Of 2025, As "black History Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
House read and passed |
| RI | H5118 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- POLICE OFFICERS -- COMMISSION ON STANDARDS AND TRAINING - Requires mandatory training standards for police officers and trainees, in identifying, responding, and handling all incidents involving any person with a devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (02/06/2025) |
| RI | H5283 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5255 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Includes the definition of "primary care services" and requires that all biennial reports shall include a review and recommendation of rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5277 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS - Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5239 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming January 30, 2025, To Be "rhode Island Food Insecurity Awareness Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
House read and passed |
| RI | H5066 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE -- PROMPT PROCESSING OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - Prohibits certain claim practices of health insurers and medical providers. The act would further require fulfillment of medical record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5114 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS - Amends the composition of the Urban Collaborative and provides that the collaborative be governed by a board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5230 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Municipal Government & Housing 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 | H5210 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating The 11th Annual "physician Anesthesiologists Week" From January 29th Through February 4th, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5212 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Boston Celtics Head Coach And Johnston Native Joe Mazzulla On Winning The 2024 Nba Championship
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5184 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5181 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5178 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies10 years after sentence completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary 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 | H5103 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Prohibits landlords from inquiring about an applicant's prior incarceration and from discriminating against those who have been released from prison.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5152 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Representative Edward T. Cardillo, Jr. For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H5113 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Requires school committees to provide transportation for any students who reside two (2) or more miles from school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5126 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- PRICE GOUGING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROHIBITED - Makes it a felony to price gouge prescriptions or pharmaceuticals in time of a shortage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5124 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- THE RHODE ISLAND FIRST STEP ACT - Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5112 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Requires the department of education to develop and make available for use in all schools a mental health curriculum. School districts would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5116 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACEUTICAL COST TRANSPARENCY - Directs the state board of pharmacy to annually identify up to fifteen prescription drugs with increased costs and provide the list to the attorney general to obtain reasons for the cos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5139 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5134 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION - Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5105 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Enables the Rhode Island public transit authority (RIPTA) to work with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to allow commuter rail passes to be used as dual passes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5127 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Allows a tenant to pay an increased security deposit in monthly increments over the course of a twelve (12) month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5133 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been render...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5104 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Forbids a motor vehicle liability insurance carrier from considering the zip code of where an insured lives for purposes of calculating their policy premium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5106 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Provides that any rate increase with respect to electric distribution companies would be no greater than the increase in the Consumer Price Index or 5.5%, whichever is greater, un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5142 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- REVENUE ESTIMATING
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
