Rhode Island Bills

sponsored by Kathleen Fogarty

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 5240 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Provides that the current COLA suspension schedule would be replaced with a fractional annual COLA of twenty-five percent (25%) of the COLA declared for that plan year, as it pertains to retired teachers, state and municipal employees.)
Jan 25 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
HB 5477 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products.)
Feb 08 2023 05/16/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 16 2023
HB 5911 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS (Includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a ten (10) year statute of limitations for third-degree sexual assault.)
Mar 01 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Judiciary
May 15 2023
HB 5506 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES (Allows health care facility to conduct research on patients subject to 21 C.F.R. Pt 50 and/or 45 C.F.R. Pt 46 (relating to the informed consent in clinical trials).)
Feb 10 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Judiciary
May 15 2023
HB 5337 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING (Prevents insurance companies from treating widowed persons differently than married persons when establishing or maintaining an insured's rate or classification respecting the operation of a personal motor vehicle. Effective 1/1/24)
Feb 03 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Commerce
May 15 2023
HR 6022 (2023 Regular Session)
JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $275,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (DEM) TO PURCHASE COUNTERS, AND MAINTAIN, COLLECT, AND ANALYZE YEAR-ROUND DATA ON BIKE PATH USAGE THROUGHOUT THE STATE (This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $275,000 to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to purchase counters, and maintain, collect and analyze year-round data on bike path usage throughout the State.)
Mar 01 2023 05/11/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2023
HR 6020 (2023 Regular Session)
JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $25,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DIVISION OF STATEWIDE PLANNING (RIDSP) TO FUND THE STATEWIDE BICYCLE MOBILITY PLAN (BMP) (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $25,000,000 to the Rhode Island Division of Statewide Planning to fund the Bicycle Mobility Plan.)
Mar 01 2023 05/11/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2023
HR 5224 (2023 Regular Session)
HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS PERTAINING TO SERVICES AND COORDINATION OF STATE PROGRAMS RELATING TO OLDER ADULT RHODE ISLANDERS (Creates a 16 member commission to study and provide recommendations for services and the coordination of state programs for older adult Rhode Islanders, and report back by May 7, 2024, and expire on August, 2024.)
Jan 25 2023 05/11/2023 House Passed Sub A
May 11 2023
HB 6148 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Creates an added 3% tax on taxable income in excess of $417,500 (in 2011 dollars)/ $557,000 (in 2023 dollars). Restricts the revenue generated by the tax to child care, education and infrastructure repairs and maintenance.)
Mar 10 2023 05/09/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 09 2023
HB 5627 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES--LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax.)
Feb 15 2023 05/09/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 09 2023
HB 6119 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Increases the Medicaid rate of reimbursement for ambulance and wheelchair van services to not less than ninety percent (90%) of Medicare rates for the same medical services.)
Mar 03 2023 05/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 04 2023
HB 5639 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID (Establishes new programs for free breakfast and lunch meals in all public schools.)
Feb 15 2023 05/02/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 02 2023
HB 6008 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT (Provides that no later than 6/30/24, the dept. of education and the office of energy resources develop regulations for school buildings to meet the latest Northeast Collaborative for High Performance Schools standards of net zero energy capable schools.)
Mar 01 2023 05/02/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 02 2023
HB 5792 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT (Amends the computation of school housing-aid for school housing projects and would provide that construction of certain projects commence in June, 2024, rather than December, 2023 in order to align such projects with the fiscal year.)
Feb 22 2023 05/02/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 02 2023
HB 5305 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- ELECTIVE MEETINGS (Mandates that on each primary for election of national convention delegates and elections for presidential preference primaries, that all public elementary and secondary schools be closed.)
Feb 01 2023 05/01/2023 Signed By Governor
May 01 2023
HB 5803 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- TAX CREDIT FOR FOOD DONATION (Provides a tax credit for food donations by qualified taxpayers to nonprofit organizations.)
Feb 22 2023 04/27/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 27 2023
HB 6007 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID (Requires all public schools to make reimbursable breakfasts and lunches available to all students under the rules and regulations of the USDA and the RI department of education.)
Mar 01 2023 04/26/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 26 2023
HB 5789 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES (Requires the department of education and the DCYF to develop a procedure to ensure that the municipalities where group homes or other residential facilities are located are reimbursed for the educational expenses above the cost allocated.)
Feb 22 2023 04/26/2023 Committee Postponed At Request Of Sponsor (04/27/2023)
Apr 26 2023
HB 5396 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social workers.)
Feb 03 2023 04/26/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 26 2023
HB 5323 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Amends the definition of the term "extraordinary costs" for the purposes of excess costs associated with special education students.)
Feb 01 2023 04/26/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 26 2023

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