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Promotes transparency and accountability in the use of artificial intelligence by health insurers to manage coverage and claims.
This bill would set rules for how health insurance companies in Rhode Island can use artificial intelligence (AI) when making decisions about whether to approve or deny medical coverage and claims.
Requires electric and gas utilities to provide a detailed breakdown of supply, delivery, and public policy costs on electric and gas bills, including specific costs for renewable energy sources, and mandate public comment and PUC approval.
This bill would require electric and gas utility companies in Rhode Island to provide customers with a much more detailed breakdown of their monthly bills.
Requires continuous updating of information from internet service providers about broadband, technology, and services.
This bill would have required internet service providers (ISPs) operating in Rhode Island to continuously update information about their broadband services, technology, and coverage.
Adds "media literacy" to the standards currently taught in civic education for K-12, which are the history of Rhode Island, representative government, the rights and duties of actively engaged citizenship and the principles of democracy.
This bill would add "media literacy" as a required topic in Rhode Island's K-12 civic education curriculum.
Increase the net taxable estate exemption to $3,600,000 on January 1, 2027. This act would also increase the exemption by $1,000,000 on January 1, 2028 and every year thereafter until this section and the tax would sunset and expire on January 1, 2033
This bill proposes changes to Rhode Island's estate tax, which is a tax on the value of a person's assets (such as property, savings, and investments) after they die.
Repeals the corporation minimum tax.
This bill would eliminate Rhode Island's corporation minimum tax, which is a flat fee that businesses incorporated in Rhode Island are currently required to pay regardless of whether they made a profit.
Prohibits total education aid paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous fiscal year.
This bill would set a limit on how much the state can cut education funding to local school districts in any given year.
Imposes a sales tax on digital advertising services.
This bill would create a new sales tax in Rhode Island specifically on digital advertising services.
Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs may include the name of the dispensing healthcare practice instead of the name of the dispenser.
This bill would change what information is required on prescription labels for medication abortion drugs in Rhode Island.
Requires that accessory dwelling units be allowed by right only if the property is owner-occupied and has been so occupied for at least 5 years.
This bill would change the rules around accessory dwelling units (ADUs) — sometimes called in-law apartments, granny flats, or backyard cottages — in Rhode Island.
Authorizes the town of Barrington to provide a tax dollar credit reduction for legally blind persons by ordinance.
This bill gives the town of Barrington, Rhode Island the legal authority to create a local property tax break specifically for residents who are legally blind.
Authorizes the town of Bristol to apply the owner-occupied tax rate for mixed-used properties where the residential portion is owner-occupied.
This bill gives the town of Bristol, Rhode Island special permission to offer a lower tax rate to certain property owners who have a mix of residential and commercial space in the same building.
Prohibits family court from detaining or committing any youth,12 years or younger, to training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault, or an attempt to commit such offenses there is no other reasonable placement.
This bill would set strict limits on when Rhode Island's Family Court can send very young children — those 12 years old or younger — to a training school (a secure, locked juvenile detention facility).
Further delineates the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
This Rhode Island bill updates and clarifies the legal definitions of three categories of crimes in state law: felonies, misdemeanors, and petty misdemeanors.
Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate.
This bill would give Rhode Island property owners a new legal tool called a "transfer on death deed" (sometimes called a TOD deed).
Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
This bill, named the "Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act," would create a legal process in Rhode Island that allows terminally ill patients to request a prescription for medication they could use to end their own life.
Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
This Rhode Island bill would allow people who are 70 years of age or older to opt out of jury duty if they choose.
Allows vehicles owned and operated by the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc and/or its affiliates or subsidiaries to operate with forward facing red and white emergency lights.
This bill would give special permission to vehicles owned and operated by the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc.
Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any information concerning a child as the court may require.
This bill would require every school district in Rhode Island to cooperate with the state's Family Court system when it comes to cases involving children.
Precludes a legal entity from owning property whose value is over $25,000,000. If the property value exceeds $25,000,000, then the entity must divest a graduated yearly amount over the next 10 years, until value is less than $25,000,000.
This bill would set a $25 million limit on how much real estate a legal entity — such as a corporation, LLC, trust, or other business organization — can own in Rhode Island.
Requires the PUC to produce yearly reports beginning on January 1, 2027 on the ability of the current electric grid to handle electrification loads needed to power cars, buildings, and heating of homes within the state.
This bill would require Rhode Island's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) — the government agency that oversees the state's utility companies — to produce annual reports starting January 1, 2027.
Creates the School Libraries Act.
This bill would create a new law in Rhode Island called the "School Libraries Act.
Repeals the 2021 Act on Climate which established a statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate in its entirety.
This bill would completely eliminate Rhode Island's 2021 Act on Climate, a law that set specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the state.
Repeals the collateral source rule in medical malpractice actions.
This bill would change how medical malpractice lawsuits work in Rhode Island by eliminating what's known as the "collateral source rule.