Rhode Island Bills

sponsored by Bill O'Brien

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 6295 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Provides all retired teachers and all retired state employees a one-time stipend in the amount of 3% of the lesser of either the member's retirement allowance or the $30,000 of the member's retirement allowance.)
Apr 19 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
HB 6017 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM--MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE CREDITS (Allows members of retirement systems who also served in the national guard or reserves to purchase retirement services credits.)
Mar 01 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
HB 5641 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS (Provides state employee public safety professionals with parity to municipal public safety employees in the state/municipal retirement systems eff. 7/1/23 with 10% contribution.)
Feb 15 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
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 5984 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM--CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS (Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law relating to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers.)
Mar 01 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
HB 5039 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS (Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators.)
Jan 11 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
HB 5404 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS (Compensates pre-2011 retirees with a non-compounded one-time adjustment for the difference in benefits between 2011 and 2023. Provides a COLA for the year 2024 and every year thereafter.)
Feb 03 2023 05/18/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 18 2023
HB 6410 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT (Allows for the wholesale sale of cannabis seeds and clones by licensees to licensed cultivators or compassion centers.)
May 17 2023 05/17/2023 Introduced, Referred To House Corporations
May 17 2023
HB 6332 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM (Provides the executive office of health and human services would submit a plan amendment to provide set rates for chiropractic services.)
Apr 26 2023 05/16/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 16 2023
HB 5769 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PARKING FACILITIES AND PRIVILEGES (Includes the governor’s commission on disabilities in the decision making process for the disability parking enforcement enhancement program and requires an annual report be submitted to the governor’s commission.)
Feb 21 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Judiciary
May 15 2023
HB 5456 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GENERALLY (Adds the Providence Canteen vehicles to the authorized emergency vehicles equipped with a siren, whistle or bell.)
Feb 08 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Judiciary
May 15 2023
HB 5464 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY (Extends the time for payment of toll violations from fourteen (14) days to thirty (30) days from the issuance of the violation.)
Feb 08 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Judiciary
May 15 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 5101 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH PROVIDENCE TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $125,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, REHABILITATION, REPAIR, IMPROVEMENTS, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF AND/OR ADDITIONS TO SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE TOWN, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THE RENOVATION OF TWO MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 79.8% FOR EXPENDITURES ELIGIBLE FOR REIMBURSEMENT (Authorizes the Town of North Providence to issue bonds and notes in an amount not exceeding $125,000,000.)
Jan 12 2023 05/15/2023 Signed By Governor
May 15 2023
HB 5018 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Diane Louise Ricciardi to join Vanessa Rose DiPilato and Nicholas Landmark Nybo in marriage on or about June 24, 2023, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.)
Jan 06 2023 05/15/2023 Signed By Governor
May 15 2023
HB 5523 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS (Awards all members of the state pension system a three percent (3%) annual benefit adjustment (COLA).)
Feb 10 2023 05/15/2023 Committee Postponed At Request Of Sponsor (05/18/2023)
May 15 2023
HB 5349 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES (Amends the conditions upon which a nurse would be exempt from certain licensing requirements to include eligibility to practice before taking and receiving results of the NCLEX exam.)
Feb 03 2023 05/15/2023 Referred To Senate Health And Human Services
May 15 2023
HB 6001 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to enter into certain projects and procure related services including the Dorrance Street transit center, using design build contracting and progressive design build contracting.)
Mar 01 2023 05/11/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2023
HB 5621 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RIDESHARE VEHICLE SURCHARGE (Implements a $0.75 surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies and also requires that the surcharges be deposited in a restricted account to be used for street improvements in the municipality where the fare originated.)
Feb 15 2023 05/11/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2023
HB 5618 (2023 Regular Session)
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX (Provides that seventy-nine percent (79%) of one cent ($0.0079) of the gas tax be directly transferred to the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority for the Elderly/Disabled Transportation Program.)
Feb 15 2023 05/11/2023 Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study
May 11 2023

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