| RI | S2337 | Pass | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Provides amendments to the Rhode Island Works Program regarding eligibility and cash assistance, and repeals the termination of benefits to a family because of failure of a family member to enter int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7686 | Pass | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends works program to provide eligibility for benefits to pregnant persons from onset of pregnancy including lawful permanent residents, increases monthly cash benefits, disallows termination of be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2713 | Engross
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | H8245 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7895 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Codifies the Katie Beckett Program pursuant to federal guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7033 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM -- CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES RATES - Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit to the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7298 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - All Medicaid programs operated by EOHHS would not reimburse home care providers less than fee-for-service rates adopted by rate review recommendations of the office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7854 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides eligibility for an additional forty dollars ($40.00) per month in food stamp benefits to certain qualifying persons or households eligible for food stamp benefits, commencing July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7490 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7124 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state's child care subsidy program and the rates paid to child care providers serving familie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7404 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Relocates certain provisions of the general laws relating to child care assistance from the Rhode Island Works Program to the chapter on child care state subsidies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7122 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7031 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7547 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILD CARE FOR ALL ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Child Care for All Act which would provide high quality and affordable child care to families throughout the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7123 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7671 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN RHODE ISLAND ACT - Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7669 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the department's standard, burial allowance payment from nine hundred dollars ($900) to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7852 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides for an annual increase of supplemental income for individuals and couples living alone, in accordance with the consumer price index for urban consumers over the average for the previous calendar year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8031 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the state's share of supplementary assistance to individuals living in a state-licensed assisted-living residence from $332.00 to $352.00, of which $140.00 would be allocated to the personal needs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2375 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2459 | Engross
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S3020 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION - Allows the executive office of health and human services to use appropriated funds to support graduate medical education programs and research.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | H7333 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7493 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7494 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H7897 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Defines step therapy and prohibits certain groups and agreements from requiring prior authorization or a step therapy protocol when prescribing certain medications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H8161 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION - Allows the executive office of health and human services to use appropriated funds to support graduate medical education programs and research.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S2887 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2344 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S2309 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2330 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM -- CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES RATES - Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit to the US Department of Health and Human Services a state plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2353 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases personal needs allowance of nursing facility to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2311 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT - Increases the income limits for elderly or disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent (180%) of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2566 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Increases the daily rate of payments to nursing facilities by twenty percent (20%) for single occupancy rooms to include private bathrooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2592 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- WAIVER REQUEST - Authorizes the executive office of health and human services to establish a program providing coverage for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals for certain beneficiaries where th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2578 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Increases the state’s share of supplementary assistance to individuals living in a state-licensed assisted-living residence from $332.00 to $352.00, of which $140.00 would be allocated to the personal needs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Committee continued |
| RI | S2847 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s child care subsidy program and the rates paid to child care providers serving famil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S2399 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | S2324 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Provides for an annual increase of supplemental income for individuals and couples living alone, in accordance with the consumer price index for urban consumers over the average for the previous calendar year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | H7028 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT - Increases the income limits for disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To House Finance Committee |
