Rhode Island bills.

H7977

Imposes strict identity disclosure requirements for those who incur expenditures for the production of ballot advocacy communications and political advertisements.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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H7985

Requires those with a public records request to provide identifying information.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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H8013

Gives mobile home residents a right of first refusal to buy or lease their park, requiring owners to notify the residents’ association and the Department of Business Regulation of bona fide offers and allow time to match the terms.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8015

Affordable housing includes an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) where it’s a long-term rental unit in a municipality with no ordinance requiring a minimum lot size for ADUs.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8031

Allows municipalities to request a one-time, state-approved extension to update comprehensive plans if they show active progress, while keeping the existing plan in effect during the extension period.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8036

ROOM) ACT (Expands access to inherently affordable housing by re-legalizing co-living/single-room occupancy (SRO) and shared dwelling models of many types.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8037

Reduces the newspaper advertising notice requirements for amendments to zoning ordinances and planning board meetings from three (3) weeks to two (2) weeks.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8039

Clarifies the means by which attached single-family dwelling units may be created, recorded, and regulated as subdivisions of an existing lot under current zoning ordinance law.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8133

Assesses a fee of one cent ($0.01) per every ten thousand (10,000) gallons of wastewater treatment facility effluent discharge.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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H8142

Creates a state program and fund to finance adaptive reuse and mixed-use housing projects, requires affordable units and labor standards, and provides oversight to expand housing until 2035.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8220

Creates a state-run pilot program in Rhode Island that provides paid, low-barrier employment to individuals experiencing homelessness for community beautification and cleanup projects while connecting participants to supportive services.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8278

Adds the town of Smithfield to those towns specifically named to tax any person for either a mobile or manufactured home and automatically lien the a mobile or manufactured home.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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H8296

Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdemeanor.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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H8332

Requires that the tax imposed upon the conveyance of any real property that is located in more than one municipality to be allocated between or among the municipalities in proportions to the assessed value of the property located in each municipality.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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H8349

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AMENDING RHODE ISLAND GENERAL LAW § 44-3-3 (Creates a 7-member commission to study and provide recommendations for amending RI General Law §44-3-3, and who would report back to the General Assembly by January 5, 2027, and would expire on March 5, 2027.)

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

H8350

Clarifies the right of the public to have access to bulk electronic data processing records, compilations of electronic court records, including the Rhode Island adult criminal database and the Rhode Island traffic tribunal database extract.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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S2052

Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.

• StageIn committee
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

S2113

Mandates that all restaurants offering children's meals offer at least two (2) children's meals that complies with certain detailed nutritional standards set forth in the act.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.

S2201

Requires the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency and the Rhode Island commerce commission to develop and implement a plan to assist businesses in obtaining flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance program.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

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S2204

Strengthens consumer protections by including definitions related directly to deceptive trade practices inherent in the insurance claim process.

• StageIntroduced
• StatusActive
• Session2026 Regular Session

Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.