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State Legislature US Congress

All 25,118 Active 7,678 In committee 7,673 Passed 5,917 Signed 4,510 Failed 6,972

in committee · Rhode Island · House Feb 11, 2022

HB 7473: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Establishes state support for school-based mental health services.)

02/11/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2241: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES (Effective January 1, 2023, increases the minimum hourly wage to fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) to sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($16.75) the next year, the next year to nineteen dollars ($19.00).)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2247: AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SR 2225: JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE-LINE ITEM VETO (This proposed amendment to the Constitution would provide the governor with a line-item veto on the budget and other bills for the appropriation of money.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2226: AN ACT RELATED TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES (Authorizes licensed auto body shops to sell or dispose of motor vehicles that have been abandoned and located on their premises.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2184: AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION (Establishes a surtax on the business corporation tax for publicly traded corporations subject to SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, if corporation's ratio of compensation for its CEO to median worker is equal to or greater than 100 to 1.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2177: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- STATE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97--THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Requires district and independent charter schools to use a random selection process to select eligible public school students who would be invited to attend the charter school and allows a parent to decline the invitation.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Education

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2175: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Provides local education agencies (LEAs) hiring site-based specialists for reading and math to receive state reimbursement based on enrollment and specific guidelines.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Education

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2189: AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- HEALTH CARE FOR FAMILIES (Creates the "Medicaid Employer Assessment.")

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2240: AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES (Increases the minimum hourly wage commencing January 1, 2027, by an amount equal to the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Northeast Region for the calendar year 2025.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2191: AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES (Directs department of administration to promulgate regulations giving preferences in the awarding of state contracts to certain business enterprises.)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance

in committee · Rhode Island · Senate Feb 8, 2022

SB 2168: AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AIR POLLUTION (Prohibits the sale of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in this state after July 1, 2023 and prohibit their use in this state after July 1, 2024. Violations would be punished by a civil fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).)

02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce