Rhode Island Bills

sponsored by Jose Batista

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 5401 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE - STATE FUNDS - RESTRICTED RECEIPT ACCOUNTS (Adds the Workers' Compensation Administration, the Rhode Island Uninsured Employers' Fund and the Rhode Island Uninsured Protection Fund, to the restricted receipt accounts not subject to indirect cost recoveries.)
Feb 03 2023 04/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 18 2023
HB 5398 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES (Reduces the fee to acquire an emailed duplicate motor vehicle registration certificate from seventeen dollars ($17.00) to five dollars ($5.00).)
Feb 03 2023 04/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 18 2023
HB 5434 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Requires the safe storage of firearms and would provide civil penalties and criminal penalties for violations.)
Feb 08 2023 04/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 17 2023
HB 5893 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.)
Mar 01 2023 04/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 17 2023
HB 5912 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS (Requires law enforcement to submit any firearm seized in any investigation to the state crime laboratory and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms (BATF) for testing and tracing.)
Mar 01 2023 04/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 17 2023
HB 5894 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals § 11-47-35.2.)
Mar 01 2023 04/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 17 2023
HB 5892 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS (Adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms that require a trigger lock to be included with any purchase.)
Mar 01 2023 04/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 17 2023
HB 5300 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULT WEAPONS (Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act would be "grandfathered". Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment.)
Feb 01 2023 04/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 17 2023
HB 5613 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT (Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the secretary of state to be utilized for redistricting.)
Feb 15 2023 04/05/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 05 2023
HB 5442 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS (Provides that any reports of investigations conducted by internal affair units or their equivalent are public records.)
Feb 08 2023 04/05/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 05 2023
HB 5582 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT (Makes possession of controlled substances civil violations punishable by a one hundred dollar ($100) fine for a first offense and up to three hundred dollars ($300) for subsequent offenses. Repeat offenders would also have to complete drug counseling.)
Feb 15 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 6200 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS (Amends the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights providing greater accountability in the disciplinary process, the chief of police authority to impose discipline after the finding of a violation, appellate rights to the accused officer.)
Mar 24 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 5686 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION (Requires sentencing court to consider whether defendant is parent of child, or caregiver of elderly, disabled or terminally ill person whose well-being would be adversely affected by the person’s incarceration and if so, shall impose a non-jail sentence.)
Feb 17 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 6161 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SOLITARY CONFINEMENT REFORM ACT (Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing (solitary confinement), as well as disciplinary and administrative confinement at the department of corrections.)
Mar 17 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 6199 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST (Prohibits the civil arrest of any person who is attending court either on behalf of themselves or a family or household member. Any person who violates this act shall be subject to civil suit and for contempt of court.)
Mar 24 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 6180 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT-- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT (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.)
Mar 22 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 5583 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS (Provides that imposition of fine only is not conviction under Rhode Island law and straight probation is not conviction, absent violation and specific findings, but probation is conviction for sentencing enhancements as mandated by law.)
Feb 15 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 5568 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT INTEGRITY ACT (Specifies and restricts use of excessive physical force by peace officers and creates a civil action for constitutional rights violations as well as impose a duty to intervene on officers on scene. Requires reporting of incident information.)
Feb 15 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 6181 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SCREENING, DISCIPLINE AND DECERTIFICATION (Creates an officer discipline board and provides law enforcement personal to comply with this act.)
Mar 22 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
HB 5697 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS (Mandates that the clerk of the district court automatically also seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of the rules of criminal procedure for district court.)
Feb 17 2023 04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023

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