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State Legislature US Congress

All 25,118 Active 7,678 In committee 7,673 Passed 5,630 Signed 4,797 Failed 6,972

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 518: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS (Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 90: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION (Requires cities and towns to implement affordable housing requirements upon all developers of tax stabilization applications for developments of more than five (5) housing units based upon median income as defined by HUD.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 544: AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID (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.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 466: AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- TREE WARDENS (Requires an electric distribution company, pursuant to a vegetation management plan approved by the DPUC, to carry out vegetation management activities for vegetation clearing around utility infrastructure along public and private rights of way.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 708: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Provides for certain farm, forest or open space property to be withdrawn from classification for renewable energy production.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 172: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS (Allows the commission to defer or suspend any fees/charges collected for demand-side management or renewables and notifies the governor, speaker of the house, and the senate president of the commission's decision to suspend any fees/charges.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 392: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT (Provides equal medicare for infants born-alive as a result of abortion procedure/natural delivery with violations subject to criminal penalties for medical personnel/loss of license/civil action for damages.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 397: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT (Creates the Rhode Island Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting the performance or induction of an abortion of an unborn child capable of feeling pain, unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 298: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES (Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · Senate May 9, 2023

SB 347: AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN (Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.)

05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House May 4, 2023

HB 5998: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Authorizes the secretary of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to develop a sliding scale decrease in benefits as a beneficiary’s income increases up to two hundred fifty percent (250%) of the federal poverty level.)

05/04/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

died · Rhode Island · House May 4, 2023

HB 5992: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAID COVERAGE (Provides stop gap health insurance coverage for anyone who is found to no longer be eligible for Medicaid due to the end of the Federal COVID-19 Emergency funds.)

05/04/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study