Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7570
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
5/23/24
Engrossed
5/28/24
Refer
5/29/24
Report Pass
6/11/24
Engrossed
6/13/24
Engrossed
6/14/24
Passed
6/25/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Allows law enforcement to utilize mufflers, silencers, or other devices for deadening or muffling the sound of a firearm while acting within the scope of their official duties under the supervision of the police chief or colonel of the state police.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7571
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
4/30/24
Engrossed
5/7/24
Refer
5/13/24
Report Pass
6/6/24
Engrossed
6/13/24
Passed
6/26/24
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CASINO GAMING - Amends the law consistent with the advent of iGaming and new technology. It also codifies the payment of investigatory expenses incurred by the State in limited circumstances.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7572
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES - Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than the participants receive anything of value.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7573
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7574
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- THIRD-PARTY LITIGATION FINANCING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT - Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financers in Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7575
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- OBSCENE AND OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS AND SHOWS - Establishes, as an affirmative defense to the crimes of circulating obscene publications or shows and selling or exhibiting obscene publications to minors, the person's employment status as an employee of a school, museum, or library.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7576
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT--- RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS OF MUNICIPAL POLICE CHIEFS - Provides protections to appointed police chiefs of cities and towns and provides they would be entitled to a hearing and due process before termination and provides for an appeal of an adverse decision under the administrative procedures act.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7577
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
6/10/24
Engrossed
6/11/24
Engrossed
6/13/24
Passed
6/25/24
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD BILL - Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7578
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
5/28/24
Engrossed
6/6/24
Refer
6/7/24
Report Pass
6/11/24
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Allows members of the Rhode Island judiciary and their staff to be issued a driver's license that contains the applicant's official business address in lieu of a residence address.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7579
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Increases the state minimum wage by $1.25 per year from 2026 through 2029 when it would reach twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour and then provides for subsequent annual adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7580
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7581
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS STAFFING - Establishes parameters for staffing of correctional officers.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7582
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
MOTOR VEHICLES AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Removes the requirement that the applicant for a Bronze Star Medal license plate pay a registration fee or transfer charge.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7583
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Engrossed
3/21/24
Refer
4/3/24
Report Pass
4/10/24
Enrolled
5/2/24
Passed
5/8/24
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Allows the department of administration to temporarily loan the state battle flags and markers to approved federal or state agencies under the condition that such loan is insured by bond against damage or loss.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7584
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Reduces the required number of members present to constitute a quorum from three (3) to two (2) members.