| RI | H5337 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COOPERATIVE SERVICE AMONG SCHOOL DISTRICTS -- CHARTER SCHOOL REFORM - Allows charter schools to engage in nontraditional approaches to learning, permits local communities to adopt all-charter school public school model for public educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5386 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Jury Nullification As Proper Trial Defense Argument (this Joint Resolution Would Propose To The Voters A Constitutional Amendment Whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5438 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEARCH WARRANTS - Dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provide a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good cause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5519 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE - Repeals authorizing Rhode Island to join an interstate compact, which would allow Presidents and Vice Presidents to be elected by a national popular vote rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5420 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES - Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education 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 | H5456 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Requires a seventy-five percent (75%) supermajority vote by the board of directors to establish a quorum and to approve any action taken by the commerce corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5367 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Manner In Which Health Insurance, Disability Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Retirement Plans And Other Traditional Employer Provided Benefits Are Accorded To Uber And Lyft Dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5414 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 90th Birthday Of Robert Edward Kenahan On February 8th, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H5396 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Establishes general caseload limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5383 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTION DATES - Changes primary election to Wednesday if after Labor Day and does not mandate local boards of election to have voter registration drive at high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5401 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Repeals pet care services from the service subject to sales tax as defined by §§ 44-18-7(19) and 44-18-7.3(b)(3).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5347 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Provides that all extended benefits offered by DCYF to foster children shall be extended to children placed in guardianship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5393 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance 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] | 2025-02-07
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 | 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 | H5183 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Allows lane filtering, the act of passing stopped or slow-moving vehicles proceeding in the same direction, for motorcycles at low speeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5213 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating President Donald J. Trump And Vice President James David Vance On Their Election, And Recognizing The 2024 Election As An Historic Election
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5177 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations, for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse, to thirty-five (35) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5153 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Gratitude And Appreciation To The Marzilli Family For More Than Six Decades Of Wonderful Memories And Delizioso Fine Dining At Marzilli's Old Canteen
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H5077 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5060 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating January Of 2025, As "rhode Island Slavery And Human Trafficking Prevention Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H8096 | Pass | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM -- PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION - Eliminates waiting periods for acceptance response for successful candidates, requires that all qualified candidates names be sent to the hiring agency, mandates given DHS so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8093 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Establishes the Rhode Island lake management program within the department of environmental management to aid with lake and pond management issues relating to the control of aquatic invasi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8355 | Pass | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows the Halona Woodson to join the Honorable Brianna E. Henries and Jarod Radigan in marriage on August 8, 2024, within the Town of Jamestown, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8363 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Representative Barbara Ann Fenton-fung For Her Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H8362 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Brian Rea For His Dedicated Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H8364 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring And Thanking Representative Patricia Morgan For Her Dedicated Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
House read and passed |
| RI | H7560 | Pass | EDUCATION -- SHEILA C. "SKIP" NOWELL ACADEMY - Provides for changes to the operating structure of the Nowell Academy establishing a cooperative agreement among school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8288 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating University Of Rhode Island Sophomore Sophia Elise Wood For Her Many Outstanding Achievements In Riflery Marksmanship
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
House read and passed |
| RI | H7187 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7896 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8259 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Thomas R. Gallagher
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
House read and passed |
| RI | H7498 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7917 | Intro
Sine Die | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8247 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Thomas R. Gallagher
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8249 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating The Week Of May 6th Through May 12th Of 2024, As "national Nurses Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
House read and passed |
| RI | H8241 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8240 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Provides that public gatherings on state house grounds be regulated to protect the participants and their right to attend public gatherings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8229 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming May Of 2024, To Be "motorcycle Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island, And Joyously Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Rhode Island Motorcycle Association
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
House read and passed |
| RI | H7797 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VACCINATION, TESTING, AND MASK MANDATES PROHIBITION - Prohibits a private employer from mandating a COVID-19 vaccination upon any full-time, part-time, or contract employee without providing individual exemptions that allow an em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H7050 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT -- SHERRY'S LAW - 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] | 2024-04-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7168 | Intro
Sine Die | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse to thirty-five (35) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7772 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of Approximately $30,000,000 To Rhode Island's Public Schools For Safety And Security Improvements (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To Each Public School In Rhode Islan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7914 | Intro
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- FAILING SCHOOL CHOICE ACT - Establishes the Failing School Choice Act and permits students at failing schools to enroll in any public school and also establishes the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8129 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Includes visual images that are created or manipulated by digitization, or without the consent of the person, within the purview of the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material and exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7683 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE TAX - Imposes a conveyance tax on purchasers, of single-family residential properties, who are for- profit entities with over $15,000,000 in assets, at a rate of $6.90/$500, to be collected for housing production fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7673 | Intro
Sine Die | PROPERTY -- FIRST TIME HOME BUYER SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT - Establishes the first time home buyer savings program act. Allows modifications to federal adjusted gross income for $50,000 in contributions and $150,000 of interest and dividends included in f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7340 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION TAX - Eliminates the gross earning tax for every corporation whose principal business is manufacturing, selling, distributing and/or transmitting current of electricity and natural gas to be used for light, heat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
