| RI | S0130 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LITTER CONTROL AND RECYCLING - Changes the fine for any person convicted of a first violation of this chapter from $85 to $200, and increases the period of time that the violator may be ordered to pick up litter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0280 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0334 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0237 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF STUDENTS ACT - Provides protections for students and parents against discrimination on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression in schools. Allows students to pray or engage in religious activities before, dur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0065 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0149 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0228 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Hilding T. Munson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0227 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Rufina Delizo Rice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0187 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0216 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Extending The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study And Review Rhode Island's Minimum Wage (this Resolution Would Extend The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0138 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Increases sentences for carrying a stolen firearm when committing a crime of violence and for possessing a stolen firearm. Requires that a person convicted of these offenses serve a period of time in which they would no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0146 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows reciprocal concealed carry permits from out of state to be valid in Rhode Island, which is either authorized by the attorney general or subject to other reciprocal restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0097 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0099 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0150 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0141 | Intro
25% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY TRANSFER ON DEATH ACT - Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0131 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0137 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0102 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Prohibits total education aid paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0084 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prohibits an insurance carrier from assessing a premium surcharge against an insured for making an inquiry regarding the terms of their policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0105 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of Approximately $30,000,000 To Rhode Island's Public Schools For Safety And Security Improvements (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To Each Public School In Rhode Island For School Safety A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0139 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM - Changes the community service requirements of a sentence related to the violation of § 11-44-21.1 relating to defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0090 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- MILK SANITATION CODE - Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0119 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF BUPRENORPHINE - Encourages and authorizes the department of health to adopt rules and regulations that lead to the more liberal utilization of buprenorphine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0144 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits possession or use of device that muffles sound on any firearm longer than 17” in length and permits the use of such a device by any person while hunting provided that they have a valid hunting license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0095 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0142 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Permits Rhode Island residents, 21 years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0088 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT - Requires as part of the solar permit application an assessment on carbon-neutral, a solar permit would only be approved if it was carbon neutral based on the assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0136 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0120 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0107 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SURPLUS FUNDS TAX CREDIT ACT - Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year would be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0043 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0038 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0057 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S2154 | Pass | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- BIRDS - Allows the taking of wild turkeys by using a crossbow in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by DEM.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-29
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2078 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS - Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2150 | Pass | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A COVERED ANIMAL - Exempts egg laying hens kept for commercial egg production purposes from the provisions of chapter 4-1.1 until January 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2112 | Pass | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP AND GUARDIANSHIP OF ADULTS - Provides that supported decision-making pursuant to chapter 66.13 of title 42 be added to the Limited Guardianship and Guardianship of Adults forms section as one of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | S2012 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- SURPLUS FUNDS TAX CREDIT ACT - Mandates that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2114 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2339 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ADJUDICATION OF TRAFFIC OFFENSES - Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2348 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- INSPECTOR GENERAL - Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2061 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2570 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of The Legislative Power (proposes A State Constitutional Amendment That No Department Or Other Entity Created By The State Would Hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2110 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2349 | Intro
Sine Die | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION - Establishes a revolving fund to assist first-time home buyers and veterans to purchase a home in Rhode Island by issuing grants of up to forty thousand dollars ($...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2664 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM - Changes the community service requirements of a sentence related to the violation of § 11-44-21.1 relating to defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2556 | 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] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2509 | 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] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S2022 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS -- SCHOOL BUS SPEED LIMIT - Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten miles per hour (10mph) less than the posted speed limit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
