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Provides for penalties for tax preparers that purposefully mislead their clients or act as ghost preparers of tax returns.
This bill sets up penalties for tax preparers in Rhode Island who engage in dishonest or deceptive practices when helping clients file their taxes.
Requires that the state’s share to support public library services in fiscal year 2027 be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated and expended by the city or town in the second preceding fiscal year.
This bill sets a specific funding formula for how much money Rhode Island state government will contribute to public libraries across the state in fiscal year 2027.
Provides that the month of September in each year be designated "Rhode Island Senior Center Month" with appropriate exercises in public places.
This bill would officially designate September of every year as "Rhode Island Senior Center Month.
Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.
This bill requires Rhode Island's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to review the mathematical formula currently used to calculate how much extra funding schools receive to support "high need" students.
Defines public-private partnerships and provides the framework to encourage the use of public-private partnerships for proposals for state purchases.
This bill creates an official definition and legal framework for "public-private partnerships" (often called P3s) in Rhode Island.
Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.
This bill would expand Rhode Island's Crime Victim Compensation Program to include people who are injured in hit-and-run incidents.
Appropriates two million seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) to fund the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the department of health.
This bill would set aside $2.
Under the emergency fund for victims, increases the share of a victim’s total award that may be used for relocation related expenses but not increase total compensation available to a victim.
This bill makes a change to Rhode Island's existing emergency fund for crime victims, which provides financial assistance to people who have been harmed by violent crimes.
Provides a tax credit to a taxpayer that makes a qualified investment in a qualified business.
This bill would create a new tax credit in Rhode Island for people or businesses that invest money into certain qualifying local businesses.
Allows for food and food supplies procurement by the state of less than $25,000 in aggregate under the small purchase regulations.
This bill would change how Rhode Island state agencies can buy food and food-related supplies.
Funds the Rhode Island baby bonds trust program without the use of taxpayer dollars through an annual allocation of unclaimed property remittances.
This bill proposes a way to fund Rhode Island's "baby bonds" program — a savings program designed to give children from lower-income families a financial head start — without using taxpayer money.
Removes the definition of "totally and permanently disabled" from the general law affording college tuition paid by the state to the spouse and children of active members of the police force who are killed or disabled during duty.
Under current Rhode Island law, the state pays for college tuition for the spouses and children of police officers who are killed or permanently disabled while on duty.
Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.
This bill would give individual school districts more flexibility in how they handle student transportation costs.
Requires hospital emergency rooms and free-standing emergency care facilities to offer and provide pregnancy prevention medication to victims of sexual assault.
This bill would require hospital emergency rooms and freestanding emergency care facilities in Rhode Island to offer pregnancy prevention medication to patients who come in reporting that they have been sexually assaulted.
Permits students diagnosed with asthma, a condition that may lead to bronchospasm or anaphylaxis, or both, to carry and self-administer asthma medication or auto-injectable or intranasal epinephrine, or both.
This bill would allow students in Rhode Island schools to carry and use their own asthma inhalers or epinephrine devices (such as EpiPens or nasal sprays) on school grounds.
Repeals the older of the two existing chapters related to speech-language pathologists and audiologists and makes several amendments to reconcile the two statutes into one.
Rhode Island currently has two separate sets of laws on the books that govern speech-language pathologists and audiologists — professionals who help people with communication disorders, hearing problems, and related conditions.
Creates a Rhode Island specialty license for physician assistants who earn the NCCPA psychiatry CAQ, formally recognizing advanced behavioral health qualifications and supporting appropriate insurance reimbursement.
This bill would create a new type of specialty license in Rhode Island for physician assistants (PAs) who have earned a specific advanced credential in psychiatry.
Allows electronic notifications modernize language for notifications, synchronize renewal dates for certain license-types, streamline licensing requirements across several license-types, and update the unlicensed health care practices statute.
This bill makes several updates to the laws governing barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, manicurists, and estheticians in Rhode Island.
Requires the state, and private insurers that cover prescription hormone therapy, to dispense twelve (12) months’ worth of the prescription as a single prescription.
This bill would require health insurance plans in Rhode Island — both state government insurance programs and private insurance companies — to allow patients to receive a full 12-month supply of prescription hormone therapy in a single prescription fill.
Repeals the certificate of need process statutes which are used by the department of health to determine the need for new health care equipment and new institutional health services.
This bill would eliminate Rhode Island's "Certificate of Need" (CON) program, which is a government approval process that healthcare providers must currently go through before they can open new medical facilities, purchase certain expensive equipment, or offer new types of health services.
Increases continuing education requirements for physician assistants, removes restrictions of PAs to render charitable care and aid for school and youth programs or cardiac arrest and removes restrictive covenants as to ownership by a PA.
This bill makes several changes to the rules governing physician assistants (PAs) in Rhode Island.
Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable.
This bill would require Rhode Island's Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) to provide blood pressure monitoring programs specifically for pregnant women and new mothers who are enrolled in the state's Medicaid program (RIte Care).
Requires inspection and evaluation of indoor air quality in public schools, departments of health shall establish and recommend thresholds and rates for environmental conditions.
This bill would require public schools in Rhode Island to regularly inspect and evaluate the quality of the air inside their buildings.
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.