Rhode Island State Representative

Jason Knight 2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7018

Introduced
1/5/24  
Prohibits utility companies from limiting eligibility of net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed to be credited to consumer. Also amends definition of excess renewable net-metering credit.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7053

Introduced
1/5/24  
Refer
1/5/24  
Report Pass
6/11/24  
Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7096

Introduced
1/10/24  
Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present or the juvenile and their parents have waived their presence.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7099

Introduced
1/10/24  
Refer
1/10/24  
Report Pass
6/11/24  
Engrossed
6/13/24  
Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7100

Introduced
1/10/24  
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.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7101

Introduced
1/10/24  
Refer
1/10/24  
Report Pass
5/14/24  
Engrossed
5/21/24  
Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7125

Introduced
1/10/24  
Eliminates the requirement of paying reinstatement fees to restore a person's right to drive.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7133

Introduced
1/10/24  
HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MARGARET E. KANE
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7165

Introduced
1/11/24  
Refer
1/11/24  
Report Pass
6/4/24  
Engrossed
6/11/24  
Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7170

Introduced
1/11/24  
Prohibits any employer from denying any person employment based on a prior criminal conviction and prohibits state from disqualifying any person from any occupation for which a license is required based on a prior conviction.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7181

Introduced
1/11/24  
Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data and preferred license plate information public.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7196

Introduced
1/17/24  
Refer
1/17/24  
Report Pass
5/15/24  
Engrossed
5/23/24  
Requires public school districts to adopt a policy for responding to the death of a student or staff member. Also amends the title of chapter 16-21.7 to "The Nathan Bruno, Jason Flatt, and Alicia Biros Bereavement Act."
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7203

Introduced
1/17/24  
Refer
1/17/24  
Report Pass
4/4/24  
Engrossed
4/9/24  
Refer
4/16/24  
Report Pass
5/29/24  
Enrolled
6/11/24  
Adds the month of August to the dates a Class A retail alcoholic beverage establishment can offer unlimited free samples of wine, beer and distilled spirits products.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7205

Introduced
1/17/24  
Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections and the last 30 days of incarceration.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7216

Introduced
1/18/24  
Refer
1/18/24  
Report Pass
5/23/24  
Engrossed
5/28/24  
Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing and also requires 2 test-fired cartridge cases to be entered into NIBIN.