| RI | H5025 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5073 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PEACE OFFICER MAXIMUM WORKDAY AND OVERTIME COMPENSATION - Establishes a maximum hourly workday for all peace officers as defined in § 12-7-21 and a violation rate of pay of double time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5115 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FOOD DYE RESTRICTION ACT - Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and distribution of foods containing certain artificial food dyes within school systems in the State of Rhode Island commencing January 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12]
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5121 | Intro
25% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Establishes regulation by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5187 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee". Also modifies how the state's labor relations board operates and aids in enforcement of the board's orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12]
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5272 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NONTRANSPARENT WINDSHIELDS AND WINDOWS - Allows the owner of a rented or leased motor vehicle to establish non-liability for traffic violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12]
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5301 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES-IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION ACT OF 2015 - Expands responsibilities of agencies, persons or entities that store, own, collect, process, maintain, acquire, use, or licenses data, who experiences a security breach, include providing addi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Innovation, Internet, & Technology Committee |
| RI | H5364 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES - Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary 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 | H5404 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION - Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5372 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5395 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows an appeal of the valuation of a motor vehicle, upon which the sales tax is calculated, when registering the motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5335 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE - Nullifies the department of elementary and secondary education recommendation that the turnaround plan for Providence public schools be continued.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H5329 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX - Defines a vape shop and exempt it from the prohibition of selling electronic nicotine-delivery system products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5293 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | H5322 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5304 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT - Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would be required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation frin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5318 | 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5070 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5283 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Finance 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] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5261 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits, effective 7/1/25, the family court to make appropriate orders of support and education of any child who has attained 18 years of age, but not 21, who is domiciled in the home of a parent, and is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5271 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Authorizes retired police officers and firefighters to earn income in addition to their earnable compensation; provided that, the amount would not exceed 5 times the rate of earnable compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5257 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5266 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5277 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS - Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5066 | 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] | 2025-01-29
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | H5227 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5230 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H5007 | Pass | House Resolution Adopting The Rules Of The House Of Representatives For The Years 2025 And 2026
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H5212 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Boston Celtics Head Coach And Johnston Native Joe Mazzulla On Winning The 2024 Nba Championship
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
House read and passed |
| RI | H5198 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows teachers, state and municipal employees to retire upon the earlier of reaching age sixty (60) with thirty (30) years of service or the employee's retirement eligibility date under present state statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5152 | Pass | House Resolution Honoring Representative Edward T. Cardillo, Jr. For His Service To The People Of The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
House read and passed |
| RI | H5129 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Provides for a residency requirement of at least six (6) months rather than one year for the Rhode Island family court to have jurisdiction over a divorce complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5134 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION - Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5133 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been render...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5104 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Forbids a motor vehicle liability insurance carrier from considering the zip code of where an insured lives for purposes of calculating their policy premium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H5128 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Makes any offense under this statute that could result in the death of an animal punishable by up to 3 years in prison, a fine of at least $1,000, or both, for each offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5135 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparison...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5069 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits any city or town from requiring an applicant for license to carry concealed firearm to provide a reason for their request other than those outlined in § 11-47-1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5085 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5078 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that licensed independent clinical social workers be able to enroll and bill Medicaid directly for covered services provided to adults with Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5047 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | H5058 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Senator James S. D'ambra
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
House read and passed |
| RI | H5038 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Edward Clark Parker, A Highly Respected Judge On The Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal For Three Decades
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
House read and passed |
| RI | H5033 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Removes nuclear plant projects from seeking the approval from the general assembly for the construction of said nuclear plant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H5026 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing Jan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5000 | Pass | House Resolution Expressing Profound Sympathy On The Passing Of President Jimmy Carter
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
House read and passed |
