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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.
Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
This bill proposes stricter sentencing rules for people convicted of first-degree sexual assault in Rhode Island.
Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
This bill would make it a crime in Rhode Island to possess, distribute, or transfer any material that shows a minor (someone under 18) engaged in sexually explicit conduct, as long as that material is considered obscene and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Redefines "Political Party" and defines and distinguishes between "major parties" and "minor parties" based on the total number of votes a party's candidate received in the previous election among other factors.
This bill would change how Rhode Island's election law defines and categorizes political parties.
Allows the town of Tiverton, with an aggregate of 500 or more units proposed in a comprehensive permit project, to enact a short-term emergency moratorium until the permit laws are amended.
This bill would give the town of Tiverton, Rhode Island a special temporary power to pause — or put a "freeze" on — large affordable housing development projects under certain conditions.
Enables the town of Portsmouth to adopt, repeal, or modify their tax classification plan for any tax year on and after December 31, 2026.
This bill gives the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, more flexibility in how it handles its local property tax system.
Prohibits municipalities from restricting certain landscaping equipment based on its power source.
This bill would prevent cities and towns in Rhode Island from banning or limiting the use of landscaping equipment — such as lawn mowers, leaf blowers, or trimmers — based on what powers them.
Provides that funds or monies collected by designated quasi-public corporations or agencies not be subject to transfer or reallocation by order of the governor or general assembly.
This bill would protect the funds collected by certain quasi-public corporations and agencies in Rhode Island from being taken or redirected by the governor or the state legislature.
Reduces the cigarette tax imposed by 75% for any modified risk tobacco product as defined in § 21 U.S.C. 387 k as a tobacco product sold/distributed to reduce the harm/risk of tobacco-related disease associated with commercially marketed tobacco products.
This bill would reduce the cigarette tax in Rhode Island by 75% for certain tobacco products that have been officially designated as "modified risk tobacco products" by the U.
Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 3.34% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employees retirement system.
This bill makes several changes to the retirement benefits for teachers and other public school employees in Rhode Island.
Direct the manage existing workforce development and compensation programs for the early educators workforce.
This bill focuses on organizing and managing programs that support Rhode Island's early childhood educators — the teachers and caregivers who work with young children in settings like preschools, daycare centers, and other early learning programs.
Establishes a revolving fund to assist first-time home buyers and veterans to purchase a home in Rhode Island by issuing grants of up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000).
This bill would create a special fund managed by the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation to help people buy their first home in Rhode Island.
Creates the home-fit dwelling units act to apply to all new construction of covered dwelling units to incorporate design features that provide safe and convenient use of to the greatest extent feasible, regardless of age or physical ability.
This bill would create a new law in Rhode Island requiring that newly built homes and residential units be designed with features that make them safe and easy to use for people of all ages and physical abilities.