| RI | S0298 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0259 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that a student's enrollment in Medicaid would be included in calculating and determining the student success factor for use in the foundation education-aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0288 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- GENERAL STATE OFFICERS - Provides that, for the general officers of the state, no person could be elected to the same general office more than twice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0262 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Sojourner House In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Sojourner House To Support Its Permanent Housing Development Program That Provides Safe, Secure Housing To...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0244 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the Rhode Island earned-income credit to twenty percent (20%) on January 1, 2026. Such credit would not exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0258 | 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0236 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0261 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax behind-the-meter batteries interconnected with a solar photovoltaic system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0313 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0290 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Grants an affirmative defense for certain privileged communications, including communications made by an individual, without malice, regarding an incident of sexual assault, hara...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0245 | Intro
25% | 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, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0257 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0241 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0059 | 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0133 | 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0134 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- TREATMENT OF JUVENILES FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - Amends the statute so as to conform to current statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act allowing for po...
[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 | S0225 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming February 7th Through The 14th Of 2025, To Be "congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[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 | S0224 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming February 11, 2025, As "the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment/black Regiment Recognition Day" To Commemorate The Contributions Of Black Soldiers During The American Revolutionary War
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0226 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Marie T. Nesselbush
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0222 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PHARMACY FREEDOM OF CHOICE -- FAIR COMPETITION AND PRACTICES - Requires pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse pharmacist no less than national drug acquisition costs plus fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0052 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE -- PROMPT PROCESSING OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - Prohibits certain claim practices of health insurers and medical providers. The act would further require fulfillment of medical record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | S0174 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Establish A Statewide Main Street Coordinating Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Formal Establishment Of “main Street Rhode Island”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0201 | Intro
25% | VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON - Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Tiverton Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 5, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0179 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS AND DUTIES TEACHERS GENERALLY -- SEPTEMBER 11 CLASSROOM MOMENT OF SILENCE - Allows teachers in all grades to provide the opportunity for students to observe a brief moment of silence on every September 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0188 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - This act would repeal the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act.
[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 | S0168 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits an insurer from imposing a requirement of prior authorization for any admission, item, service, treatment or procedure ordered by a primary care provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0172 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0167 | 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] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0042 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT - Provides that funds or monies collected by designated quasi-public corporations or agencies not be subject to transfer or reallocation by order of the gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0163 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Anthony V. Arico
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0125 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at $16 per hour, 2027 at $17 per hour, 2028 at $18 per hour, 2029 at $19 per hour and for 2030 at $20 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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 | S0109 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends State funding calculations for special education, revising extraordinary cost calculations for FY 2027-2028, and providing additional funds for excess costs when special education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0094 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax, the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.
[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 | S0117 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0111 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - This act would sunset/discontinue the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0083 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Commerce 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 | S0115 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglyce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0123 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0148 | 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] | 2025-01-31
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 | S0108 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- STATE FORESTS AND FORESTRY PROJECTS - Directs the general assembly to fund ten full time equivalent positions in FY 2026 to support DEM's efforts in the areas of forestry and forestry projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0110 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT ACT - Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0156 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Evaluate The Potential Necessity For Changes In The General Laws Pertaining To Alcoholic Beverages And Recreational Cannabis (creates A 13 Member Commission To Evaluate And Deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
