On Record (39)
Bill
Allows lane filtering, the act of passing stopped or slow-moving vehicles proceeding in the same direction, for motorcycles at low speeds.
Bill
Expands the health professional loan repayment program to healthcare providers practicing in primary care health settings.
Bill
Establishes a restricted receipt account at the DLT for hospitality industry workforce training grants, funded by an annual $50 dollar fee to be charged by RIDOH to food service establishments.
Bill
Allows a tenant with a disability who needs a service animal or an emotional support animal to house the animal on the rented premises.
Bill
Authorizes the city of Cranston to establish a housing division within its municipal court.
Bill
Amends how architecture firms and individual architects are registered.
Bill
Specifies that pre-k programs for three (3) – and four (4) – years olds be added to programs to increase access to voluntary, free, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs.
Bill
Permits victims of stalking to recover for expenses related to relocation or home modification under the crime victim compensation program.
Bill
Gives teachers who takes an unpaid parental or medical leave during the year credit for a year of service for that school year if they served a minimum of 135 days.
Bill
Raises the percentage from eighty percent (80%) to eighty-five percent (85%) regarding declaring a vehicle a total loss.
Bill
Establishes the Rhode Island education funding and accountability act, which would include a totally revised and revamped formula for funding all levels of public education in Rhode Island.
Bill
Repeals the older of the two existing chapters related to speech-language pathologists and audiologists and makes several amendments to reconcile the two statutes into one.
Bill
Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the RI promise scholarship program or the RI hope scholarship program, after Rhode Island college has satisfied all eligible scholarships to be reimbursed to onward we learn.
Bill
Authorizes the use of campaign funds for security related expenses, including home and office security systems and ongoing monitoring, in response to threats arising from their public service or candidacy.
Bill
Permits reimbursement for dental hygienists from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.
Bill
INSURANCEINSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that no contract between a dental plan or other healthcare entity and a dentist requires the dentist to accept exclusively by virtual credit cards.
Bill
EducationEDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT
EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines, rules and regulations for the implementation and expansion of prekindergarten education programs for children ages 3-4 to increase children’s school readiness statewide.
Bill
INSURANCEINSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT
INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Raises the percentage from eighty percent (80%) to eighty-five percent (85%) regarding declaring a vehicle a total loss.
Bill
Specifies that pre-k programs for three (3) – and four (4) – years olds be added to programs to increase access to voluntary, free, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs.
Bill
Businesses And ProfessionsBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Permits reimbursement for dental hygienists from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.
Bill
Businesses And ProfessionsBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS - Amends how architecture firms and individual architects are registered.
Bill
EducationEDUCATION -- TEACHERS RETIREMENT
EDUCATION -- TEACHERS RETIREMENT - Gives teachers who takes an unpaid parental or medical leave during the year credit for a year of service for that school year if they served a minimum of 135 days.
Bill
INSURANCEINSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT
INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Prohibits dental insurers from refusing to honor directions to pay from insured, modifying benefits to be paid. Requires providers to accept payment by virtual credit card as unfair claims practices.
Bill
Towns And CitiesTOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS
TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Authorizes the city of Cranston to establish a housing division within its municipal court.
Bill
PROPERTYPROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT
PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Allows a tenant with a disability who needs a service animal or an emotional support animal to house the animal on the rented premises.
Bill
EducationEDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education.
Bill
TaxationTAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXESTAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
Bill
EducationEDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT
EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
Bill
Neutral
INSURANCEINSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT
INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 85% of the fair market value.
Bill
Neutral
State Affairs And GovernmentSTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Allows the owner of a residential unit to rent it for tourist or transient use. Prohibits a municipality any means to deny the owner from offering and renting the unit for tourist or transient use.
Bill
Neutral
HEALTH AND SAFETYHEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODEHEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Eliminates provisions establishing a legislative regulation committee, and would also repeal the provision that codes and standards adopted by the state building code standards committee subject to approval by the legislative regulation committee.
Bill
Neutral
EducationEDUCATION -- CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
EDUCATION -- CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION - Provides that the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develop a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside their district.
Bill
Neutral
EducationEDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT
EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes guidelines for the expansion of high-quality public prekindergarten education programs for children ages three (3) and four (4) to increase children’s school readiness.
Bill
Neutral
Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation To The Rhode Island Auditory Oral Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $1,167,100, To The Rhode Island Auditory Oral Program, To Support The Program’s Mission To Provide Specialized Auditory-oral Programming For Children With Hearing Loss.)
Bill
Neutral
HEALTH AND SAFETYHEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH PROFESSIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH PROFESSIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Expands the health professional loan repayment program to healthcare providers practicing in primary care health settings.
Bill
Neutral
EducationEDUCATION -- THE RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUNDING AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
EDUCATION -- THE RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUNDING AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island education funding and accountability act, which would include a totally revised and revamped formula for funding all levels of public education in Rhode Island.
Bill
Neutral
TaxationTAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXESTAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from sales tax the trade-in values of motorcycles as well the proceeds received as a result of an unrecovered stolen or total loss of a motorcycle.
Bill
Neutral
EducationEDUCATION -- CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
EDUCATION -- CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION - Provides the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develops a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside their district.
Crossposts (77)
Bill
crosspost
Adds school superintendents, central office officials, school principals, and all other school employees, to the definition of a “public official” for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
Bill
crosspost
Increases the penalties for a first offense of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death to a minimum 10 years in incarceration, a minimum of $10,000 and a minimum license revocation of 10 years.
Bill
crosspost
Prohibits unilateral modification of healthcare provider contracts.
Bill
crosspost
Provides that the commissioner of elementary and secondary education would direct all local education agencies to select one of the identified high-quality curricula and materials for science and technology no later than June 30, 2027.
Bill
crosspost
Directs middle and high schools which issue student identification cards to include on those cards on or before September 8, 2026, contact crisis telephone numbers for suicide prevention and substance use disorder prevention.
Bill
crosspost
Allows for sending of the notice under power of sale and rights of active military servicemembers by USPS First Class Mail and/or an overnight delivery service, instead of by USPS certified mail return receipt requested.
Bill
crosspost
Authorizes Cranston to issue not more than $4,000,000 general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the repair, construction and rehabilitation of storm drains and drainage improvements, and remediation and mitigation of drainage and flooding problems.
Bill
crosspost
Authorizes the city of Cranston to issue not more than $4,000,000 general obligation bonds/temporary notes for the acquisition, construction, improvement, renovation, repair and alteration of playgrounds, athletic fields and related equipment in the city.
Bill
crosspost
Authorizes Cranston to issue not more than $2,000,000 general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the acquisition, demolition, construction, improvement, renovation, repair, alteration, furnishing and equipping of public buildings in the city.
Bill
crosspost
Authorizes the city of Cranston to issue not more than eight million dollars ($8,000,000) general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the acquisition, improvement, renovation and repair of fire and public safety equipment in the city.
Bill
crosspost
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO FINANCE THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND BRIDGES IN THE CITY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PAVING, DRAINAGE, TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, ROAD MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT, SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AND LANDSCAPING AND ALL COSTS INCIDENTAL OR RELATED THERETO BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $8,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR
Bill
crosspost
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $25,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE PURCHASE AND/OR ACQUISITION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY
Authorizes Cranston to issue no more $25,000,000 obligation bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness to finance the purchase and/or acquisition of land/buildings, construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing, equipping
Bill
crosspost
Authorizes and fund the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate to be hung in the senate lounge or thereabouts.
Bill
crosspost
Expands council on elementary and secondary education and board of education and makes teacher of year and student advisory chair voting members on each.
Bill
crosspost
Permits the implementation of a system of electronic registration and titling of motor vehicles, by the DMV and would require that rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter, would be promulgated by the administrator of the DMV.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes enforcement limitations on contract terms for the licensing of electronic books or digital audiobooks to libraries to preclude the library from being subject to unfair sales practices.
Bill
crosspost
Caps delinquent tax interest rate at 12%. Prohibits audits beyond 3 years from date of tax filing, 7 years for fraudulent filings, and in no event beyond 10 years from date of filing or required filing date, whichever is later.
Bill
crosspost
Protects individuals and businesses from those who knowingly impersonate an entity with the intent of facilitating fraud. This act would also protect individuals and businesses from digital forgery.
Bill
crosspost
Creates the Rhode Island voting rights act to establish procedures to prevent discrimination in the voting process.
Bill
crosspost
Requires health insurers to comply with federal mental health parity laws, prevent discriminatory treatment limits, and ensures meaningful mental health and substance use coverage in all benefit classifications.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes a new high-cost special education fund to pool resources and generates income to support excess costs associated with providing services to special education students.
Bill
crosspost
Provides that every gas distribution company that charges for the distribution of would need to include certain information on any bill or statement provided to the consumer.
Bill
crosspost
Directs the manage existing workforce development and compensation programs for the early educators workforce.
Bill
crosspost
Amends the state building code and would require that the state adopt the 2024 International Residential Code and prohibit the state building committee from adopting amendments for one to four residential dwelling units until 2030.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes a seven (7) member public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission to approve all requests for proposals submitted for public-private partnership construction of qualified facilities.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes certain presumptions pertaining to early childhood education programs operating in RIDE-certified school buildings.
Bill
crosspost
Allows municipalities participating in the state prekindergarten program to accept students from outside the municipality under certain conditions and establishes a lottery for enrollment in the program.
Bill
crosspost
Creates the child-serving provider liability joint underwriting association to provide a joint underwriting association to provide liability insurance coverage for eligible child serving providers.
Bill
crosspost
Requires party chairpersons to submit lists of party voters to the mayor or council president within 30 days of notice of vacancy in a municipal election office and mayor/council president are required to make a replacement nomination within 30 days.
Bill
crosspost
Allows the dependents of a national guard member, who is in good standing, to be eligible for tuition assistance.
Bill
crosspost
Includes veterans 75 years or older with a combined service connected disability rating of 70% as eligible for disabled veterans license plates.
Bill
crosspost
Permits extended early intervention services for children with developmental disabilities whose third birthday is between May 1 and August 31.
Bill
crosspost
Increases reimbursement caps promulgated in 2018 and applies to eligible costs for library projects incurred from June 30, 2025 through June 30, 2031, or ending earlier if the Office of Library Information Services amends the regulations.
Bill
crosspost
Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability or as evidence of an admission.
Bill
crosspost
Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2026.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.
Bill
crosspost
Gradually phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a five (5) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to one hundred percent (100%), beginning on or after January 1, 2027.
Bill
crosspost
Amends certain signature requirements and deadlines regarding primaries for election of delegates to national conventions for presidential preference.
Bill
crosspost
Allows, but not require, local licensing authorities to grant temporary periods for extended indoor service hours under existing liquor licenses for certain 2026 FIFA World Cup Tournament matches.
Bill
crosspost
Prohibits state agencies from entering into software contracts that limit the agency's ability to install or run the software of the agency's choosing on their hardware.
Bill
crosspost
Expands RI’s Renewable Energy Standard to include nuclear and hydroelectric power as eligible zero-emission resources and sets rules for how they qualify.
Bill
crosspost
Enlarges definitions of prohibited acts that constitute hazing, make principals, coaches, athletic directors and others responsible for knowingly failing to take reasonable measures to prevent hazing and punishes serious injury.
Bill
crosspost
Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires that those facilities provide in-person contact visits.
Bill
crosspost
Amends the regulations on the cancellation and renewal of liability and property damage insurance for automobiles, homeowners insurance, residential fire insurance and components thereof.
Bill
crosspost
Provides educators and administrators employed in a charter public school or mayoral academy with prevailing wage and benefits oversight and recourse if found in violation of the same.
Bill
crosspost
Provides that only a mayor or town administrator could be a voting member of the board of directors or trustees for a mayoral academy.
Bill
crosspost
Repeals the law that prevents a collective bargaining agreement covering state employees, public school teachers and municipal employees from specifying a particular healthcare provider in it.
Bill
crosspost
Changes the maximum term of employment for a superintendent from three (3) to five (5) years.
Bill
crosspost
Allows employees, not represented by a union, to create a group to collectively bargain with employers.
Bill
crosspost
Amends the Rhode Island works program to allow lawful permanent residents to receive benefits without a waiting period and increases the monthly cash benefit to one hundred percent (100%) of the federal poverty level effective July 1, 2026.
Bill
crosspost
Allows members of the retirement system who served in the national guard or reserves and qualify as veterans, to purchase retirement service credits based on their years of service in the National guard or reserves.
Bill
crosspost
Amends the pension benefits for both current and former Rhode Island State Police members.
Bill
crosspost
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.
Bill
crosspost
Changes the retirement allowance based on accrued benefits.
Bill
crosspost
Proposes a bond measure to authorize the State of Rhode Island to issue up to $36,000,000 in bonds, subject to voter approval, to support the Boys and Girls Clubs.
Bill
crosspost
Authorizes the state retirement board to revoke or reduce an individual’s pension benefit if that individual is convicted or pleads guilty or no contest to a felony sex crime related to their public office or public employment.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes a state-run prescription drug purchasing pool, available for participation by nonstate public employers, private employers, and health insurance carriers, to maximize the value of drug discounts available to participants.
Bill
crosspost
Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data and preferred license plate information public.
Bill
crosspost
Moves North Kingstown from the third division of the district court to the fourth division to better balance case workloads among the divisions.
Bill
crosspost
Permits the expungement of records 5 years after the imposition of sentence for misdemeanors and 10 years after the imposition of sentence for felonies, and if the sentence is greater than 10 years, then, upon successful completion of the sentence.
Bill
crosspost
Allows Rhode Island employers can help pay employees’ student loans in high-need fields if they work full-time for 2 years in undeserved areas and are in an income driven repayment plan. RISLA must provide annual reporting.
Bill
crosspost
Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the community college of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.
Bill
crosspost
Provides $100,000 to support the mental health and emotional well-being of children in OST settings.
Bill
crosspost
Removes the mandatory certification for an individual 16 years or older who was found delinquent for having committed 2 offenses after the age of 16 which would render the person subject to an indictment if the person was an adult.
Bill
crosspost
Amends the school funding formula to ensure that local education authorities do not lose funding due to disruptions in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Bill
crosspost
Exempts from sales tax the amount paid for food and beverages during summer restaurant week and winter restaurant week.
Bill
crosspost
Ends transaction fees for school lunches in all districts. This act requires at least one no-fee payment method for school lunches and a full disclosure whether fees will be charged by a payment platform.
Bill
crosspost
Establishes a separate domestic violence calendar within the superior court to handle felony domestic violence cases.
Bill
crosspost
Allows parents or guardians to have access to GPS data of the bus or other motor vehicle used to transport students to and from school.
Bill
crosspost
Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center located in the city of Pawtucket.
Bill
crosspost
Allows a different minimum salary schedule for Providence public school teachers and provides a process for the dismissal and demotion of teachers. The reconstitution and control of the Providence public schools would terminate on June 30, 2026.
Bill
crosspost
Creates three (3) new awards for Rhode Island National Guard members and would provide eligibility for the Rhode Island star for certain civilian government employees and military and civilian leaders of foreign governments.
Bill
crosspost
Creates a program through which fire departments and fire districts are notified of locations of registrants of electric and hybrid motor vehicles can register their vehicles with their local fire department or fire district.
Bill
crosspost
Requires all schools and educational institutions to develop and implement a school safety plan that would provide for immediate access to school facilities by first responders in an emergency.
Bill
crosspost
Makes the bridge over Smith Street and Route 95, the George Nee Bridge.
Bill
crosspost
Requires healthcare insurers, without prior authorization, to provide post-acute care services to patients discharged from a hospital for a minimum of seven (7) days commencing on or after January 1, 2027.
Bill
crosspost
Creates a special motor vehicle registration plate for The Rhode Island Hockey Hall of Fame.