| RI | H5185 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PROHIBITION OF UNFAIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS - Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the fut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5303 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINT HISTORY TRANSPARENCY ACT - Establishes a searchable database of healthcare professionals' complaint histories, accessible to employers. License holders can review and dispute inaccuracies, while ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5343 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5353 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5498 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to monitor and mandate changes to the price-setting practices of pharmacy benefit managers to prohibit t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5533 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Reinstates general revenue sharing of state aid among the 39 cities and towns in Rhode Island. The initial amount is based upon population, and increased annually thereafter based on the increase in the Consumer Price ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5499 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Seeks to promote increased consumer access to Medicare supplement health insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5509 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Requires the state building commissioner to implement electronic permitting for any category of state or local permit authorized under state law to significantly impact the expediency of construction and dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5525 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT - Exempts teachers and state employees who have been retired for more than three (3) full calendar years, from having their retirement benefit adjustment reduced based upon the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5491 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires the department of elementary and secondary education and DOH to adopt policies, rules and regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5497 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires EOHHS to develop a budget and seek funding to establish an early childhood mental health hub program to improve access to infant and early childhood mental heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5496 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5532 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates additional state education funding for the mental and behavioral health of students equal to 2% of the district’s total expenditures, and require those funds be used to hire s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5494 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5537 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- MENTAL HEALTH LAW - Provides that advanced practice registered nurses have the same immunity from liability as physicians and surgeons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5536 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $200,000 To Be Used For Incentives For Fruits And Vegetables Sold At Participating Bonus Bucks Outlets In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $200,000 For Incentives For The Farm Fresh ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5087 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE CHILDREN'S CARDIAC SAFETY ACT - Establishes "The Children's Cardiac Safety Act", and provide for childhood cardiac screening based on modules that incorporate current best practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5273 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires all lifeguards, and park rangers, to be trained in administering opioid antagonists, and would require all public beaches to keep available a minimum of four doses of opi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5278 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- MILITARY CHILD ACT - Defines "military-connected student", "advance enrollment" and "open enrollment" to give them flexibility in choosing a school district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5387 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Adds “space force” to the branches of the military included in various sections of general law regarding the veterans home, veterans cemetery and the power of armed forces officers to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Veterans Affairs 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 | H5474 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a four (4) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to eighty percent (80%), beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5431 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that individuals enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B guaranteed right to enroll in standardized plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5426 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5462 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS-EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INFANTS - Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be ...
[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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | H5249 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Mandates that a cannabis dispensary display the signage warning that the consumption of marijuana and THC products during pregnancy poses risks to infant development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5408 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating The Honorable Aaron Ley, Ph.d. On The Accreditation Of The University Of Rhode Island's Master Of Public Administration Program By The Network Of Schools Of Public Policy, Affairs, And Administration (naspaa)
[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 | H5338 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires at least one certified school psychologist per every five hundred (500) students be employed at each school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5397 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5339 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Provides that for the period up until July 1, 2027, an applicant for a teaching certificate in Rhode Island would not be required to complete a standardized teacher's examination as a prerequisite to obtaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Education 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 | H5376 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate would be divided equally b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5381 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Amends several statutes relating to elections and the dates for primaries and dates within which to file nomination papers and object to nomination papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government & Elections 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 | 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 | H5345 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program for all children in the care and custody of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5023 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health & Human Services 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 | H5164 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Establishes a task force managed by the children’s cabinet to develop recommendations to improve access to early intervention and early childhood special education services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5320 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Prohibits the Rhode Island medical assistance program and managed care organizations that it contracts with from requiring prior authorization or step therapy protocol for a prescription of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5302 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler, prescription device, or prescription equipment to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
