| RI | H5017 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- CONSUMER ENFORCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE WARRANTIES - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5046 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Placed on House Calendar (02/27/2025) |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5248 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5375 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit municipalities and water suppliers to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements and permit tenants to request and schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5334 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5369 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from property taxation, the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5340 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Requires the producer of artificial turf and turf infill sold or distributed in Rhode Island to report its chain of custody, from installation to use, repurposing, recycling and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5424 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE SUPERFUND ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act cost recovery program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5427 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5495 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5492 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Creates the Microplastics Reduction Act to prohibit the sale or distribution of products containing synthetic polymer micro particles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5488 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5500 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5493 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5028 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5346 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibit the family court from detaining any juvenile or committing any juvenile, under the age of 12 years, to the training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5434 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Protect Patients And Traditional Medicare From Medicare Advantage
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5433 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5461 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Amends Rhode Island’s existing healthcare services funding plan act by adding an account relating to a new psychiatry resource network to fund Rhode Island’s present PediP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5470 | Intro
25% | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2026 BOND REFERENDA - Submits 2026 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November, 2026, general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5452 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Provides that it is the public policy of the state that DCYF be the chief agency responsible for all matters related to children's behavioral health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5448 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Eliminates the "until June 30, 2025" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5467 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Extends allocation of motor fuel tax to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Fund through 2025. Changes the allocation to 30% total proceeds, including 30% from the one cent per gallon environmental prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5468 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Adjusts the motor fuel tax for inflation every two (2) years based on the inflation that has occurred in the previous two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5459 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve, Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Right To An Adequate Education (amends The Constitution To Guarantee Rhode Island Residents With Equal Opportunity To Receive An Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5463 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5477 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Establish A Statewide Main Street Coordinating Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Formal Establishment Of “main Street Rhode Island”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5430 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5453 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Replaces CRMC with a newly created division of coastal resources management, a state entity within the DEM and would transfer all authority to the DEM with duties and responsibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5422 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL WASTE RECYCLING AND REFUSE DISPOSAL - Amends the certain provisions relative to school waste recycling and refuse disposal and requires reports of waste audits by educational entities and reports of program participation by vendor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5450 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- ALL-ELECTRIC BUILDING ACT - Provides that no city or town may issue a permit for the construction of new buildings, that are not an all-electric building, if the initial application for a permit was submitted after Decemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5446 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits a tenant, at the tenant’s expense, to implement energy conservation measures to any dwelling or dwelling unit such as removable weather-stripping around doors and windows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5473 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Creates an additional tax rate of 3% on taxable income over $625,000 in 2025 dollars. Applies to tax years 2026 and thereafter and not retroactively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5176 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STUDENT COMPUTER DEVICE PRIVACY - Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5274 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5247 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provide that advertising goods that don't include a price referencing all mandatory fees and charges shall be a deceptive trade practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5246 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT - Establishes a digital electronics right to repair, which would allow for digital electronic equipment and parts that are sold in this state on or after Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5400 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- STATE AID TO LIBRARIES - Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5405 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Establishes a restricted receipt account for the benefit of the Rhode Island public transit authority, funded by sales taxes collected from ride-share companies, which said sales taxes wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5398 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Revises the calculation for the student success factor in the education-aid formula by adding an additional multiplier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5374 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- RHODE ISLAND INCLUSIVE HOME DESIGN ACT - Establishes a new article in the state building code that provides that certain new housing construction contain at least one floor that meets the requirements for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5382 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5350 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5141 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Establishes a motor vehicle license plate to honor Roger Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Special Legislation 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] | 2025-02-06
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] | 2025-02-06
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] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5171 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HARM REDUCTION CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PILOT PROGRAM - Removes the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers and creates a permanent pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
