Rhode Island Bills

sponsored by J. Aaron Regunberg

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 7629 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - PERSONAL INCOME TAX (Establishes a nineteen percent (19%) carried interest fairness fee for investment management services in order to tax the carried interest income of hedge fund and private equity investors as traditional ordinary earned income.)
Feb 14 2018 05/08/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 08 2018
HB 7664 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (Increases the compensation of direct-care staff of nursing facilities as a result of the application of the inflation index.)
Feb 15 2018 05/02/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 02 2018
HB 7285 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program.)
Jan 25 2018 05/02/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 02 2018
HB 7674 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC POWER UTILITY COUNCIL ACT (Establishes the Rhode Island public power utility council.)
Feb 15 2018 04/30/2018 Meeting Postponed (05/01/2018)
Apr 30 2018
HB 7866 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- PRIMARY CARE TRUST ACT (Creates the "Primary Care Trust Act" to require health insures to allocate a fair portion of medical spending for the delivery of primary care services and creates a trust for administration of the program.)
Feb 28 2018 04/30/2018 Committee Postponed At Request Of Sponsor (05/02/2018)
Apr 30 2018
HB 8140 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE - DIVESTITURE OF INVESTMENTS IN MANUFACTURERS OF FIREARMS (Prohibits the investing of assets of any pension or annuity fund managed by the state investment commission in companies that manufacture firearms.)
Apr 27 2018 04/27/2018 Introduced, Referred To House Finance
Apr 27 2018
HR 8131 (2018 Regular Session)
House Resolution Urging Law Enforcement Officials To Recognize White Nationalist And Neo-Nazi Groups As Terrorist Organizations
Apr 27 2018 04/27/2018 Introduced, Referred To House Judiciary
Apr 27 2018
HB 7137 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TUITION EQUITY (Creates the "Student Equal Economic Opportunity Act" which would identify those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public universities, colleges or community colleges.)
Jan 12 2018 04/26/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 26 2018
HB 7017 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Increases the number of days a retired teacher may substitute teach or be otherwise employed by a school system from ninety (90) days to one hundred (100) days without a reduction or forfeiture of retirement benefits.)
Jan 03 2018 04/26/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 26 2018
HR 7284 (2018 Regular Session)
House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Pass Legislation Establishing An Improved "Medicare For All" Single Payer Program That Would Provide Universal Comprehensive Affordable Health Care
Jan 25 2018 04/25/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 25 2018
HR 8116 (2018 Regular Session)
House Resolution Proclaiming May 24, 2018, To Be "Age Friendly Rhode Island Day"
Apr 25 2018 04/25/2018 House Read And Passed
Apr 25 2018
HB 7214 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT (Improves access to the state house by creating more parking, childcare services and remote testimony, prohibits contributions to legislators during the legislative session and reduces the amount allowed to be contributed to a candidate.)
Jan 18 2018 04/25/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 25 2018
HB 7974 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires all public secondary schools to provide a working science laboratory for all students studying science, technology, engineering or mathematics.)
Mar 16 2018 04/25/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 25 2018
HB 7644 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Provides that applicants for gun permits submit to national records check including fingerprinting by FBI.)
Feb 15 2018 04/24/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 24 2018
HB 7661 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS (Requires the public utilities commission to periodically review the advertising expense, passed through in utility rates, to determine whether the expense should be deemed allowable or should be excluded from the utility's rates.)
Feb 15 2018 04/24/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 24 2018
HB 7645 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Criminalizes the manufacture, import, possession, purchase, sale or transfer of any ammunition feeding device capable of accepting more than 10 rounds, known as high capacity magazines. Makes exceptions for law enforcement and the US armed forces.)
Feb 15 2018 04/24/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 24 2018
HB 7762 (2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS (Repeals the statute providing state preemption of laws pertaining to the ownership, possession, transportation, and sale of firearms and ammunitions.)
Feb 28 2018 04/24/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 24 2018
HR 8103 (2018 Regular Session)
House Resolution Recognizing The 70Th Anniversary Of Israel'S Establishment And Reaffirming The Bonds Of Friendship And Cooperation Between Rhode Island, The United States, And The State Of Israel
Apr 24 2018 04/24/2018 House Read And Passed
Apr 24 2018
HR 8003 (2018 Regular Session)
House Resolution Expressing Disappointment In National Grid For Its Increasing Rates And Service Concerns And Recommending That The Responsibility For Energy Distribution Be Transferred To Not-For-Profit Entities
Mar 28 2018 04/24/2018 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
Apr 24 2018
HR 8094 (2018 Regular Session)
House Resolution Commemorating "Holocaust Remembrance Day" On April 12, 2018
Apr 12 2018 04/12/2018 House Read And Passed
Apr 12 2018

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