Prohibits applications for a comprehensive permit under the Rhode Island comprehensive planning and land use regulation act in any watershed overlay protection district located in the town of Tiverton.
Prohibits applications filed in the town of Tiverton, for comprehensive permit projects, for low and moderate income housing, to include accessory dwelling units.
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.
Provides that compensation comparability studies of senior management, documents discussed at an open meeting, annual contracting reports, list of current salaries and positions, and all policies and procedures of public corporations be made public.
Maddy summarySB 807 (AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS) requires all public bodies (like city councils or school boards) to provide translation services at open meetings when requested. It mandates that these bodies develop a plan to ensure meeting proceedings are accessible in requested languages by September 1, 2026. The bill directly affects non-English-speaking residents who attend public meetings, ensuring they can understand discussions. This policy change implements concrete accessibility measures without automatic translation, relying on individual requests to trigger services.
Changes annual reporting requirements for the state’s family home-visiting program and also impacts appropriation and spending of funds in order to access maximum federal funding for these programs.
Caps delinquent tax interest rate at 12%. Prohibits audits beyond 3 years from date of tax filing, 7 years for fraudulent filings, and in no event beyond 10 years from date of filing or required filing date, whichever is later.
Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any information concerning a child as the court may require.
Maddy summarySB 448, known as "The Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act," amends existing law to outline various categorical programs eligible for direct state funding. The bill provides state funds for excess costs associated with special education students and student transportation for both out-of-district non-public schools and within regional school districts. It also allocates funding for career and technical education, pre-kindergarten programs, and
Maddy summarySB 1046 amends the state's sales and use tax laws related to hotel taxes. Currently, there is a 5% state hotel tax and a 1% local hotel tax on hotel stays and similar accommodations. This bill introduces a new provision that allows individual cities and towns to levy an *additional* local hotel tax, up to a maximum of two percent (2%). This means a community could increase its total local hotel tax from one percent to up to three percent, with the state's division of taxation generally collecting and distributing these local taxes to the respective municipalities.
