| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| RI | H7659 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- TAX SALES - Replaces the tax sale auction process with a real estate broker listing of the land for fair market value and any surplus proceeds realized upon sale shall be paid to the owner of the real estate at the time of the sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7682 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX -- PART 44-30-81 PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION - Provides, for the tax year 2023 and thereafter, that any tax overpayment would be refunded with interest calculated at twelve percent (12%) compounded daily if not receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7607 | Intro
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- SMALL EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE AVAILABILITY ACT - Amends the definition of "small employer" for purposes of the small employer health insurance availability act to mean a business employing less than one hundred (100) employees rather t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7677 | Intro
Sine Die | HIGHWAYS -- MAINTENANCE OF TOWN HIGHWAYS - Requires that all inspections, cleaning and maintenance and repairs of sidewalks along state highway and municipal roads, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7389 | Intro
Sine Die | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- ORGANIZATION AND COMMAND OF MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES - Requires an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the state militia by the United States Congress before members of the National Guard may be rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H8008 | Intro
Sine Die | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Limits the governor to one thirty (30) day renewal of a declaration of emergency without a joint resolution of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7653 | Intro
Sine Die | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS - Renames 46-19.1, allows existing docks on ponds with 1400 normal storage feet of water per DEM, allows property owner to commence work on property without pond owner authorization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H7836 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS - Penalizes as a misdemeanor for the first two offenses and a felony for any third or subsequent offense for obstructing the free, convenient, and normal use of any municipal, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7512 | Engross
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES - "Pupil Transportation Vehicle" to be and constructed to seat not more than ten (10) passengers including the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H7429 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Changes the requirements of quarterly meetings of the board to monthly meetings. The chairperson of the board would be the commissioner or acting commissioner of the office of energy reso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7873 | Intro
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND GUARDIANS IN PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION ACT - Enables parents to review public school learning materials/object if the parent decides that the material is harmful. Also a parent may withdraw their student from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7520 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Repeals a 2021 law that mandated minimum staffing levels and standards for quality care for nursing homes and their residents with violations subject to monetary penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7564 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF NURSING SERVICE AGENCIES - Removes the exemption from licensure for certain nursing service agencies accredited by the joint commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7814 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD - Requires the PUC to make public notification of any changes in eligibility or production of energy, and would direct the commission to promulgate rules and regulations to allow and facilita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7810 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires the public utilities commission (PUC) to produce a report by January 1, 2025 and each January 1 thereafter, on the ability for the current electric grid to handle the electrifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7813 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT - Makes several amendments relative to the affordable clean energy security act establishing the act's priority over chapter 6.2 of title 42 (the "2021 act on climate").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7723 | Intro
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- INNOVATION SCHOOLS - Allows for the establishment of innovation schools for the purpose of improving school performance and student achievement through increased autonomy and flexibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7763 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Provides for free APRA records, DOA manages all APRA Records, and uses an online database for records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7778 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Small Business Committee |
| RI | H7390 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT - Expands the lobbying reform act to apply to persons who lobby municipal government executives and legislative bodies, as well as local fire districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7608 | Intro
Sine Die | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REFORM ACT - Authorizes any and all state licensing authorities to issue licenses to individuals moving into this state with a minimum of three (3) years of practice, in good standing in any other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7529 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7622 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS - Requires the DOH and the EOHHS to collaborate with community health centers to establish new programs designed to attract federal funds, with a focus on the utilization of Teaching Health Center Graduate M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7824 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires DCYF to place a locked suggestion box in its facilities and create a digitally secured suggestion box into which residents may place comments and/or concerns to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7823 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to conduct periodic comprehensive needs assessments to determine whether the department’s programs and servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7563 | Intro
Sine Die | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- ORGANIC FARMING AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM - Establishes the organic farming and certification program to be administered by the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H7366 | Intro
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CERTIFICATE OF NEED PROCESS - Repeals the certificate of need process statutes which are used by the department of health to determine the need for new health care equipment and new institutional health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7442 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2024, and restores access to telemedicine for all residents and allows treatment by ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7430 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD - Restores several provisions of the Renewable Energy Standards chapter which were repealed in 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H7354 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H7391 | Intro
Sine Die | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTION DATES - Requires that the primary election date, typically the eighth Tuesday preceding the biennial state elections, shall be held on the Wednesday immediately following Labor Day, only if the eighth Tuesday immediately...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H7392 | Intro
Sine Die | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES - Creates a new additional post-election risk-limiting audit of voted mail ballots, focusing on voter signature verification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
