Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5690
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - This act would repeal the chapter entitled "Low and Moderate Income Housing".
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5691
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Requires developer who proposes to develop a project shall submit a comprehensive assessment of the project to each municipality where the project shall be physically located.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5692
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Allows the operation of a home-based business, which meets criteria for home office IRS income tax deduction, without securing approval from the municipality with no storage of chemicals/park heavy equipment/not more than 10% of premises used for parking.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5693
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES - Allows municipalities to seek recovery of fines associated with ordinance violations by permitting the municipality to include the fines on a property tax bill.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5694
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
4/10/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Passed
5/9/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5695
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
5/2/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5696
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Places a cap of twenty percent (20%) on increases in consecutive revaluations of real property in all cities and towns conducting revaluations commencing December 31, 2025, and every December 31 thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5697
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Exempts certain cities and towns whose communities exceed the low and moderate income housing threshold from the tax of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5698
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5699
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Codac, Inc., a Rhode Island nonprofit domestic corporation, located at 45 Royal Little Drive in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5700
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Changes the retirement allowance based on accrued benefits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5701
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- CANCER BENEFITS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS - Makes the provisions of §§ 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinance to the contrary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5702
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5703
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
3/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Enrolled
4/10/25
Passed
4/18/25
THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS - Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5704
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities. That choose to participate. Reports would be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and would be submitted to the department of environmental management.