HB 8282
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations, health maintenance organizations and Rhode Island Medicaid, to issue policies that provide coverage for emergency medical services transport.)
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May 25 2022 |
06/14/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Jun 14 2022
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HB 8266
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (Excludes eligible nonimmigrant visa holders from paying the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.)
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May 19 2022 |
05/31/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 31 2022
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HR 8290
(2022 Regular Session)
House Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Venerable Phra Ajahn Bounthanh Prasavath
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May 26 2022 |
05/26/2022 House Read And Passed
May 26 2022
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HB 7593
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT (The Rhode Island Cannabis Act legalizes adult use of cannabis. It provides for licensing of cultivation, manufacture and retail sale of cannabis.)
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Mar 01 2022 |
05/25/2022 Signed By Governor
May 25 2022
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HB 7443
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN (Increases the coverage eligibility for any pregnant person for Medicaid from an income level of 250% of the federal poverty level to 400% of the federal poverty level and provides full health insurance coverage for pregnant people.)
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Feb 11 2022 |
05/19/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 19 2022
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HB 7626
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Mandates that health insurance companies and Medicaid provide coverage for FDA approved COVID-19 home testing kits.)
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Mar 02 2022 |
05/19/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 19 2022
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HB 7237
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS ACT (Increases the income limits for disabled individuals to one hundred eighty percent (180%) of the federal poverty level to qualify for medical assistance coverage.)
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Jan 28 2022 |
05/17/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 17 2022
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HB 7440
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Adds one new income tax bracket for purposes of state income taxation.)
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Feb 11 2022 |
05/17/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 17 2022
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HB 8252
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL FISHING VEHICLES (Requires the division of motor vehicles to develop a form for registration of and a license plate for commercial fishing motor vehicles.)
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May 13 2022 |
05/13/2022 Introduced, Referred To House Finance
May 13 2022
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HB 7390
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- MINIMUM WAGE FOR PROVIDERS (Requires state contracted human services providers to pay their employees a starting hourly wage, of no less than twenty-one dollars ($21.00) per hour, and to include wage incremental raises for existing employees.)
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Feb 09 2022 |
05/12/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 12 2022
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HB 7630
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS (Provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college or university who teach at least 50% of the hours regularly worked by full-time faculty in a semester would be eligible for the same medical benefits as other state employees.)
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Mar 02 2022 |
05/11/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2022
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HB 7280
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS (Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-state entity.)
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Feb 02 2022 |
05/11/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2022
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HB 8116
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STATE AID (Prohibits withholding aid for infraction of laws and regulation during an intervention or other exercise of control. Would be retroactive to 1/1/21 for orders under section 16-5-30.)
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Apr 08 2022 |
05/10/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 10 2022
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HR 8227
(2022 Regular Session)
House Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Mercedes Peguero
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May 10 2022 |
05/10/2022 House Read And Passed
May 10 2022
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HB 8117
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE (Eliminates the requirement that a city or town's educational funding (maintenance of effort) be increased by the same percentage as the total state aid provided and applies retroactively to January 1, 2019.)
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Apr 08 2022 |
05/10/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 10 2022
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HR 8225
(2022 Regular Session)
House Resolution Congratulating Rinchen-Tzo Emgushov, Md, On Her Retirement After Thirty-Seven Distinguished Years Of Practicing Medicine And Providing Exceptional Service To Her Patients
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May 10 2022 |
05/10/2022 House Read And Passed
May 10 2022
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HB 8115
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STATE AID (Prohibits commissioner of elementary and secondary education, notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, from withholding aid for infraction of laws and regulations during an intervention or other exercise of control pursuant to § 16-7.1-5.)
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Apr 08 2022 |
05/10/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 10 2022
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HB 8217
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SERVICES (Increases the hourly compensation for "individual providers" from no less than fifteen dollars ($15.00) on April 1, 2022, and gradually increase several times until June 30, 2023, when it would be eighteen dollars ($18.00) and continuing.)
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May 06 2022 |
05/06/2022 Introduced, Referred To House Finance
May 06 2022
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HB 7916
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LIBRARIES - STATE AID TO LIBRARIES (Requires that the state’s share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2023, utilizing funds from the general fund or the American Rescue Plan Act.)
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Mar 07 2022 |
05/04/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 04 2022
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HB 8159
(2022 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES (Provides for contractor liability for debts owed to an employer or third party on the wage claimants behalf, incurred by a subcontractor.)
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Apr 14 2022 |
05/03/2022 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 03 2022
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