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.)
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Mar 22 2023 |
04/04/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 04 2023
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HB 6196
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT (Establishes requirements which would have to be met by an applicant prior to the issuing of permits for an activity that would have an environmental impact on or would increase the cumulative impacts on an environmental justice area.)
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Mar 24 2023 |
03/30/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 30 2023
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HB 5264
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES (Extends the moratorium on penalties related to COVID-19 modifications to food business or food service establishments to February 15, 2024.)
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Jan 27 2023 |
03/30/2023 Signed By Governor
Mar 30 2023
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HB 5142
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT OF 2023 (Provides for a prohibition on any new high-heat waste facility.)
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Jan 18 2023 |
03/30/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 30 2023
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HB 5590
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES (Commencing 1/1/24, gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities from the current ($3.89) to ($14.95) by 1/1/28 and on 1/1/29 the minimum wage shall be no less than the minimum wage established by the minimum wage law.)
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Feb 15 2023 |
03/29/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 29 2023
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HB 5592
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- INSPECTION OF PERSONNEL FILES (Amends the definitions of the inspection of personnel files. The act would also amend the penalties by increasing them to not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).)
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Feb 15 2023 |
03/29/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 29 2023
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HB 5181
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES (Repeals the law that allowed employers to pay some of their minor employees and employees who are full time students and not attained the age of nineteen (19) less than minimum hourly wages, requiring them to be paid a minimum hourly wage.)
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Jan 19 2023 |
03/29/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 29 2023
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HB 5363
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- PUBLIC USE OF PRIVATE LANDS-LIABILITY LIMITATIONS (Changes the definition of owner to exclude the state and municipalities for the purposes of liability limitations relating to public use of private lands.)
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Feb 03 2023 |
03/28/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 28 2023
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HB 5588
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES (Raises minimum wage on January 1, 2026 and each January 1 thereafter, by the percentage increase in the CPI-U, as published by the US Dept. of Labor Statistics, as of August of the previous year over the level as of August of the year preceding that year.)
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Feb 15 2023 |
03/28/2023 Withdrawn At Sponsor's Request (03/29/2023)
Mar 28 2023
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HB 6203
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS (Authorizes an annual two and one-half percent (2.5%) escalation for all active and retired police and fire fighter's retirement pension allowance, compounded each year on January 1st following the year of retirement and continuing yearly, on that date.)
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Mar 24 2023 |
03/28/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 28 2023
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HR 5170
(2023 Regular Session)
House Resolution Strongly Urging The Providence Public School District And The Rhode Island Department Of Education To Reverse The Decision To Close The Alan Shawn Feinstein Elementary School, The Carl G. Lauro Elementary School, And The Gilbert Stuart Middle School
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Jan 19 2023 |
03/22/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 22 2023
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HB 5777
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SUPPORT AND ACCESS TO BILINGUAL EDUCATION ACT (Creates a new chapter for the support and access to bilingual education. It creates a dual language program fund to be administered by the department of education. Local education agencies would be eligible to apply to the department for funding.)
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Feb 22 2023 |
03/22/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 22 2023
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HB 5554
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS (Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.)
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Feb 15 2023 |
03/21/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 21 2023
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HB 5351
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Mandates insurance policies, provides coverage to diagnose & treat infertility for women between 25 & 42 years, including pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF).)
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Feb 03 2023 |
03/21/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 21 2023
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HB 5331
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CHECK CASHING (Caps the APR for payday loans at 28%. Requires 90-day maturity date. Prohibits fees/interest payments in excess of 60% of principal. Requires monthly payments of no more than 25% of original principal amount.)
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Feb 03 2023 |
03/21/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 21 2023
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HR 5727
(2023 Regular Session)
JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS TO SAFEGUARD RHODE ISLAND AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS (This resolution creates an eleven (11) member special legislative commission to study and provide recommendation to safeguard Rhode Island against nuclear weapons.)
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Feb 17 2023 |
03/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 17 2023
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HR 5770
(2023 Regular Session)
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- OF SUFFRAGE (Would propose to the voters of the state a constitutional amendment regarding eligibility to vote and to be a candidate.)
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Feb 21 2023 |
03/17/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 17 2023
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HB 5572
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- DISORDERLY CONDUCT (Requires conduct that creates an actual public disturbance that includes a gathering of people drawn to and watching the conduct, stopping, impeding or causing traffic, or creating similar public disturbances in order to constitute disorderly conduct.)
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Feb 15 2023 |
03/16/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 16 2023
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HB 5046
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ASSAULTS (Makes an assault on taxi drivers a felony punishable by up to three (3) years imprisonment and an assault with a dangerous weapon punishable by five (5) to twenty (20) years imprisonment.)
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Jan 11 2023 |
03/16/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 16 2023
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HB 5049
(2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Places a cap of twenty percent (20%) on increases in consecutive revaluations of real property in all cities and towns conducting revaluations commencing December 31, 2023, and every December 31 thereafter.)
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Jan 11 2023 |
03/16/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Mar 16 2023
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