Rhode Island State Representative

Jose Batista 2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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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 H7184

Introduced
1/11/24  
Establishes the position of military spouse liaison, in the office of veteran's services, to conduct outreach and advocate on behalf of military spouses in the state.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7186

Introduced
1/11/24  
Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to twenty-seven percent (27%) of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality annually.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7195

Introduced
1/17/24  
Establishes a one-year pilot outreach and tracking program at two public high and middle schools to address issues of asthma and attendance among students.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7199

Introduced
1/17/24  
Permits family court to make orders of support and education of a child from ages eighteen (18) to twenty-one (21).
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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 H7208

Introduced
1/17/24  
Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7211

Introduced
1/18/24  
Repeals the provisions of the general laws allowing deferred deposit providers, also known as "payday lenders."
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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.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7217

Introduced
1/18/24  
Bans the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons. Possession of assault weapons owned on the effective date of this act to be "grandfathered". Violations are punishable by a fine or imprisonment.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7218

Introduced
1/18/24  
Removes the requirement that individual of sixteen (16) years of age or older and found delinquent of two (2) offenses would be automatically certified and afforded a jury trial.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7229

Introduced
1/19/24  
Provides that original equipment manufacturers, implemented by/with surrogate distributors, of agricultural equipment, provide to independent service providers repair information and tools to maintain and repair electronics-enabled agricultural equipment.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7237

Introduced
1/19/24  
Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7268

Introduced
1/24/24  
Requires purchasers of firearms, to take and pass a basic firearm safety test and requires the firearm test administered by DEM be updated every two years, as deemed appropriate and repeals ยง 11-47-35.2.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7269

Introduced
1/24/24  
Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.