| RI | H5259 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Prohibits the suspension of any person’s operators’ or chauffeurs’ license or their vehicle registration unless upon conviction of driving offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5506 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYEES' FREE SPEECH IN WORKPLACE - Protects employees' rights in the workplace concerning political and religious matters, by creating a civil action that may provide damages and attorneys' fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5501 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- BAIL AND RECOGNIZANCE - Prohibits the courts from setting cash or surety bail on any misdemeanor offense but permits the court to set reasonable non-monetary conditions of bail to assure the defendant's presence in court as requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5047 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5188 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. This act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5366 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5439 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Mandates that the clerk of the district court, upon request of the defendant, automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5443 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SUICIDE PREVENTION -- VOLUNTARY FIREARM RESTRICTIONS ACT - Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5478 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Nora's Haven (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Fund The Vital Services Provided By Nora’s Haven.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5428 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Details each of those limited emergency circumstances where a registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurses, may safely administer sedation, such as critical life-saving or emergency situations where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5436 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5472 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT - Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 2.89% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5458 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION AND TITLING - Establishes a system of electronic registration and titling of motor vehicles. Rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter to be promulgated by the administrator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5471 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Provides an option for members to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, after twenty (20) years of service upon reaching age fifty-seven (57).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5421 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires that all new school buses be equipped with live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring systems as of July 1, 2027. All buses, new and used, must have the monitoring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5437 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- JAILS AND PRISONS - Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5440 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5419 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN VETERAN EMPOWERMENT ACT - "SAVE ACT") (Establishes the "safeguarding American veteran empowerment act".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Corporations 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 | H5186 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Amends current law on controlled substances to permit psilocybin to be cultivated within a person's residence for personal use and contingent on the US FDA's program, mandate that RI department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5223 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT ACT - Provides a remedy for any harm caused due to deprivation or violation of rights secured by the Rhode Island Constitution due to acts of the State of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5222 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime while...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5331 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LENDERS AND LOAN BROKERS - Removes the licensing exemption for a lender that originates less than six (6) loans in twelve (12) consecutive months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5349 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5390 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance 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 | H5365 | Intro
25% | FIDUCIARIES -- APPLICATION OF LAWS TO TRUSTS - Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5362 | Intro
25% | Allows eligible individuals serving sentences of imprisonment to seek sentence reductions from the superior court, individuals serving life without parole or minimum mandatory sentences pursuant to law, would not be eligible for such relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5370 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides tax credits or the equivalent assessment dollars to veterans, gold star parents, visually impaired persons and the elderly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5404 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION - Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5348 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 ("commercial sexual activity"). It would also allow the option for HIV te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5372 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5379 | Intro
25% | CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- COMMISSION ON PARDONS - Establishes a commission to promulgate rules, regulations and make recommendations to the governor as to petitions for pardons under Article IX, Section 13 of the Constitution of Rhode...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5395 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows an appeal of the valuation of a motor vehicle, upon which the sales tax is calculated, when registering the motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance 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 | H5358 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5357 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary 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 |
| RI | H5298 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5130 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases or shell casings seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing, also would require 2 test-fired cart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5182 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY - Provides that the cost of maintaining and repairing or restoring an easement or right-of-way shall be shared by each owner of a benefited property and their costs shall be determined by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5262 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Adds school superintendents, central office officials, school principals, and all other school employees, to the definition of a “public official” for purposes of the criminal prohibition against makin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5174 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5276 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Establishes the Ranked Choice Voting for Rhode Island Presidential Primaries and provides for new sections on ranked choice voting tabulation a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| 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 | H5275 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS -- GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFFICES -- RANKED CHOICE VOTING - Establishes an instant runoff form of ranked choice voting limited, to general assembly primary elections, with three (3) or more candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5271 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Authorizes retired police officers and firefighters to earn income in addition to their earnable compensation; provided that, the amount would not exceed 5 times the rate of earnable compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
