Every Rhode Island bill, in plain English.
Every Rhode Island bill, in plain English.
Session over. The 2027 session opens January 5.
This bill prevents towns from charging farms connection fees for water utility extensions and permanently protects qualifying agricultural land.
This bill allows East Providence to require and regulate licenses for hotels, motels, boardinghouses, and catering establishments.
This bill gives Rhode Island schools an extra year, until June 2027, to select science and technology curriculums.
This bill ends the state takeover of Providence schools in 2026 and updates teacher pay, layoff, and dismissal rules.
This bill requires that state savings from reduced Medicaid enrollment be exclusively used to increase healthcare provider reimbursement rates.
This bill moves the towns of Warren and Bristol into a different school bus transportation district.
This bill increases the number of days a retired municipal employee can work annually without losing pension benefits from 75 to 90.
This bill requires electric companies to offer 30-year contracts with fixed, escalating pricing for large renewable energy systems.
This bill asks voters in 2026 to approve an $18 million state bond to upgrade the Roger Williams Park Zoo.
This resolution appropriates $200,000 to the Housing Network of Rhode Island to support affordable housing and homelessness response initiatives.
Appropriates $800,000 in state funds to WaterFire Providence for operational support during the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
Creates a tax credit to reimburse businesses for costs associated with transitioning to employee ownership models like ESOPs or cooperatives.
This bill appropriates $200,000 to the Rhode Island Black Business Association to support entrepreneurship and business development programs.
Appropriates $3,000,000 to Rhode Island Legal Services, Inc. to provide legal representation for low-income residents, veterans, and abuse victims.
Imposes a graduated tax on profits from real estate sales for properties held less than six years.
This bill prohibits software vendors from forcing state agencies to use specific hardware when purchasing standard software licenses.
Towns can tax home sales over $900,000 to fund local affordable housing development.
This bill prohibits the sale of menthol, mint, and wintergreen flavored electronic nicotine-delivery systems (vapes) in Rhode Island.
This bill requires the state to reimburse towns for lost taxes on property owned by the Pokanoket Tribe Land Trust.
This bill expands property tax relief by raising income limits and increasing the maximum tax credit amount available to residents.
This bill restores Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) for retired teachers, state employees, and municipal workers by lowering funding requirements.
This bill redirects specific tourism tax revenues to the Commerce Corporation and allocates short-term rental taxes to fund homelessness resources.
This bill requires hospitals, nursing homes, and health centers to submit quarterly financial reports to the state.
This bill requires insurers to pay out-of-network dentists directly upon request and bans mandatory virtual credit card fees.
This bill allows Kei cars and trucks to be registered and driven on roads under 35 miles per hour.
This bill allows Rhode Island General Assembly committees to accept public testimony remotely via video or telephone conferencing.
This bill authorizes a $100 million bond measure for the 2026 ballot to fund climate and coastal resilience projects.
This bill allows specialized, age-restricted vape shops to sell flavored e-cigarettes and uses sales revenue for quit-smoking programs.
This bill raises fees on imported petroleum barrels to fund state projects designed to reduce climate change emissions.
This bill mandates funding for ten new Department of Environmental Management employees in 2027 to manage state forests.
Establishes a $2.00 per ton surcharge on trash to fund grants for composting and waste reduction projects.
Appropriates $3 million to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank for FY 2026-2027 to combat rising food insecurity and offset federal SNAP cuts.
This bill authorizes the Lincoln and Tiverton casinos to host bingo games and establishes how the revenue is divided.
Raises the prevailing wage contract threshold from $1,000 to $100,000 and mandates stricter municipal enforcement and penalties for wage violations.
This bill requires casinos to establish separately ventilated smoking and nonsmoking gaming areas and allows employees to opt out of smoking areas.
This bill bans the construction or operation of pyrolysis waste-processing facilities within one mile of any K-12 school.
This bill creates an automatic, annual inflation-based increase to Medicaid payments for assisted living facilities starting in 2026.
It requires the state to pay assisted living facilities to hold rooms for Medicaid residents absent over 10 days.
Facilities storing human embryos must get a state license, follow safety rules, and undergo inspections to operate legally.
This bill limits sales tax exemptions for books to limited productions of 1,500 copies, excluding retail and online sales.
