Elaine J Morgan

This act would require electric and gas utilities to provide a detailed breakdown of supply, delivery, and public policy costs on electric and gas bills, including specific costs for renewable energy sources, and mandate public comment and PUC approval. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would increase the net taxable estate exemption to three million six hundred thousand dollars ($3,600,000) on January 1, 2027. This act would also increase the exemption by one million dollars ($1,000,000) on January 1, 2028, and every year thereafter until this section and the tax would sunset and expire on January 1, 2033. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would repeal the corporation minimum tax. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would allow a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. This act would take effect upon passage.

Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of Approximately $30,000,000 To Rhode Island's Public Schools For Safety And Security Improvements (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $100,000 To Each Public School In Rhode Island For School Safety And Security Improvements.)

This act would allow an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate. The act would apply to a transfer on death deed made before, on, or after January 1, 2027, by a transferor dying on or after that date. This act would take effect upon passage.

Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Scott Bill Hirst

Senate Resolution Commemorating January Of 2026, As "rhode Island Slavery And Human Trafficking Prevention Month" In The State Of Rhode Island

This act would require the public utilities commission (PUC) to produce a report by January 1, 2027 and each January 1 thereafter, on the ability of the current electric grid to handle the electrification load needed to power cars, buildings, and heating of homes within the state and provide the report to the speaker of the house, the senate president and the governor. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require a corporation created under this statute to be regulated by the Rhode Island department of business regulation. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would repeal the 2021 Act on Climate which established a statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate in its entirety. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would phase out the local meals and beverage tax by January 1, 2030. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would exempt from the sales tax firearm safety equipment, storage devices, gun safes, gun cabinets, gun vaults, gun cases, strong boxes, cable locks, trigger locks and biometric locks. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would mandate that any surplus state tax revenue received in any fiscal year would be refunded to the taxpayers of this state on a proportional basis in relation to the personal income tax liability incurred by the taxpayers in that fiscal year. This act would take effect on July 1, 2026.

This act would require that the governor submit a zero-based budget to the general assembly with the zero-based budget phased in over a five (5) year period, commencing with the fiscal budget year of July 1, 2027. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would set a clear and enforceable standard for reducing the presence of harmful metals in personal care products, prioritizing public health through testing, labeling, and the development of safer alternatives commencing on January 1, 2030, with enforcement one hundred eighty (180) days thereafter. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would allow the attorney general to enter into agreements with other states to recognize a concealed handgun permit as valid. This act would authorize the State of Rhode Island to recognize and honor a concealed weapon permit from out of state provided the license holder is twenty-one (21) years of age or older, the reciprocal state or county provides a means of twenty- four (24) hours instantaneous verification, the permit holder has in their immediate possession the valid out of state permit along with a state issued photo identification and the individual is subject to the same laws and restrictions with respect to carrying a weapon as a resident of Rhode Island. Further, any active-duty law enforcement officers having a government issued identification card would have the right to carry a concealed firearm within the State of Rhode Island. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would permit Rhode Island residents, twenty-one (21) years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit, subject to meeting four (4) conditions: (1) That the person is not prohibited by law from possessing a firearm; (2) That the handgun carrier must possess a certificate of qualification of shooting proficiency; (3) That the carrier has a safety certificate recognized by the Rhode Island department of environmental management; and (4) That the carrier has, in their possession, a governmental issued photo identification. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would add a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense and in the reasonable belief that the person engaged in the criminal offense was about to inflict great bodily harm or death upon that person or any other individual. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would define suitable person for purposes of possessing and having a concealed carry pistol permit, would establish reasons for applying for a concealed carry permit for both in- state and out-of-state residents, would recognize a concealed weapon permit or license by a reciprocal state, would establish what information is required on applications for carry permits, establish time limits and an appeal process when an application is denied, provides that records relating to carry permits and appeals is not a public record and would permit the use of silence or suppressor for use in hunting. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would allow any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school, as a full or part- time resource officer, to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year and not have an interruption in their receipt of pension benefits. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide that students enrolled in an appropriately credentialed career and technical education program in the areas of emergency medicine technician, firefighting, or public safety including, but not limited to, students under eighteen (18) years of age, could participate in training activities at the fire academy. This act would also allow students who successfully complete those secondary education programs to take certain exams and skills testing. This act would take effect on July 1, 2026.

Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of The Honorable Richard Serra

This act would require the public utilities commission (PUC) to make public notification of any changes in eligibility or production of energy, and would direct the commission to promulgate rules and regulations to allow and facilitate the prompt public disclosure of this information. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act establishes the Rhode Island Clean Air Preservation Act that establishes a regulatory process to prohibit polluting atmospheric experimentation such as solar radiation modification (SRM), sunlight reflection methods (SRM), solar radiation management (SRM), geoengineering, weather modification, cloud seeding, or other atmospheric interventions involving the release of pollutants including Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) known also as "forever chemicals," within the state, providing penalties for violations. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require the department of transportation, in consultation with the department of environmental management, to conduct an environmental impact study of motor vehicle non-exhaust particle emissions. It also would allow the departments to collaborate with an academic research institute and direct the departments to make specific recommendations to the general assembly, to reduce the environmental impact of tire particle emissions. Their report would be completed no later than January 1, 2027. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative approach to reducing carbon emissions and meeting the climate goals set forth in the act on climate. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would allow a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide on and after July 1, 2027, a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula or of any other state funding received through the department of elementary and secondary education. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would exempt from the sales tax eligible school supplies, costing less than thirty dollars ($30.00), purchased within one week prior to the commencement of the academic year for public and private schools. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would establish a tax credit against income tax based upon eligible expenditures incurred by a family caregiver for the care and support of an eligible family member. The maximum amount of the credit would be one thousand dollars ($1,000) and would apply to all tax years beginning after December 31, 2026. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would eliminate the estate tax in Rhode Island. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would prohibit any city, town, quasi-municipal corporation or public corporation from assessing any existing agricultural operation or agricultural land for the extension of any water utilities past the property and from imposing any connection fee. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would change the residential limit for any substantial multi-family housing project not to exceed forty thousand (40,000) residents according to the United States Census Bureau. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would restore the requirement that a local review board issue findings for denial in reviewing a comprehensive permit request. The act also clarifies that affordable housing units shall be included in each town and city when the building permits for said units are granted. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized and licensed to carry a firearm. The cause of action would allow the injured individual to recover for injury to his or her person, death, physical, emotional and/or mental distress, economic loss or expense, property damage or any other compensable loss as a result of conduct occurring on the real property that prohibits the possession of firearms. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities, would allow the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections, and would provide a revocation of the facilities license upon any finding of a deficiency. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would categorize women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports. A team would be categorized as males, men, or boys; females, women, or girls; or coed or mixed. If there is a dispute, a student would establish sex by presenting a signed physician's statement that shall indicate the student's sex. Additionally, this act would create a cause of action for any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or subject to retaliation as a result of violations of this chapter. This act would take effect January 1, 2027.

This act would define “anti-Semitism” for the state human affairs commission to use while investigating and working to resolve complaints of discrimination and for the commission against prejudice and bias to use in defining hate crimes. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would permit the possession or use of a muffler, silencer or other device on any firearm longer than seventeen inches (17”) in length and would permit the use of such a device by any person while hunting provided that they have a valid hunting license at the time of use. No other city or state agency may enact any rule or regulation of law affecting the right to use such a device. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person if that individual is lawfully in a place they have a right to be, and acted in self-defense and in the reasonable belief that the person engaged in the criminal offense was about to inflict great bodily harm or death upon that person or any other individual. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would enact the Rhode Island Broadband Oversight and Accountability Act of 2026. The act would amend and remove statutory barriers that may prevent Rhode Island from oversight and monitoring of broadband services. The act would also direct the commerce corporation to prepare and submit a plan regarding the creation of broadband oversight authority or a similar structure. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require the department of elementary and secondary education and the department of health to issue guidance for the administration of seizure rescue medications administered for students who have been medically identified as having epilepsy/seizure disorder. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would direct the department of environmental management to administer and manage the land and natural resources of the Big River Reservoir. This act would also extend several tax credits and incentives that are set to expire on December 31, 2026, to December 31, 2028. This act would also authorize the state energy benchmarking and performance standards program. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would amend the existing provisions of the Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act by providing that the annual amount of the regionalization bonus would be two percent (2%) of the state's share of the foundation education aid formula for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and for each fiscal year thereafter. This act would take effect on July 1, 2026.

This act would establish 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. This act would merge the auditor general and office of internal audit and program integrity into the office of inspector general. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year it is promulgated, before it can become effective. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would permit students at failing schools to enroll in any public school. This act would also establish the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would enable parents and guardians to review public school learning materials in advance and object if they decide that the material is harmful. The act would provide that a parent or guardian may then withdraw their student from the activity or class, where the material is used and request an alternative assignment. The act would also require, that in order to ensure the parent’s or guardian's rights, every school committee or charter school governing body shall disclose on their website a list of the learning materials and activities used for instruction organized by subject area and grade level. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would prohibit the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would redefine what constitutes a farm by reducing the amount of revenue from farm products required to be sold from ten thousand ($10,000) to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500). The act would expand the farm to include all agricultural operations, including forestry. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would prohibit mandating indemnified products to consumers where a refusal or acceptance would result in loss of employment, loss of employment opportunity, loss of promotion, loss of the ability to receive a private or public education, or coercion or harassment if a consumer declines an indemnified product. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2026. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide that infants born-alive during an abortion procedure are entitled to the same medical care as infants born-alive as a result of natural, premature or caesarian delivery with criminal penalties for medical personnel who fail to perform their duties and obligations set forth in the act. This act would also provide a civil action for compensatory and punitive damages and a basis for professional disciplinary action. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would criminalize 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. If the infant dies as a result of that failure to provide reasonable care, the medical person would be guilty of manslaughter. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would establish the right of a medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service that violates their conscience. This act would further protect medical practitioners and institutions from lawsuits or criminal charges for exercising their right of conscience. This act would ensure that a doctor or nurse cannot be fired, demoted, or otherwise discriminated against by their employer for declining to participate in a procedure that violates his or her conscience. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capacity. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide for a parents' bill of rights preventing the state or any governmental entity from infringing on the fundamental rights of parents in the upbringing of their children. The act would spell out the rights of parents with respect to the health, education and welfare of their minor children. Violations of the act would result in civil, criminal and/or administrative penalties. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require verification of an applicant's date of birth and either a Rhode Island driver's license number or state identification number on all applications seeking mail ballots and emergency mail ballots. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would allow automatic voter registration for Rhode Islanders applying for hunting and fishing licenses, like the procedures in effect for applicants to the division of motor vehicles. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would repeal the energy efficiency charge. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would terminate the requirement that the public utilities commission allocate five million dollars ($5,000,000) annually to the Rhode Island infrastructure bank for use with energy efficient programs. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would amend the renewable energy standard obligations of entities to sell at retail to Rhode Island customers. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide that any school teaching sexual education to students shall provide the sexual education curriculum to every parent or legal guardian with a child in that school, and the parent or legal guardian shall consent, in writing, to the teaching of such sexual education curriculum to their child. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would repeal in their entirety sections 16-22-30, 16-22-31, 16-22-32 and 16-22- 33, all of which relate to the establishment of statewide academic standards in mathematics, English language arts, science and technology, history, social studies, world languages and the arts and their implementation into the curriculum of all public schools. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would establish a new program where the per pupil funding, calculated annually by the department of education (RIDE), may be transferred into a newly created educational funding account (EFA) administered by the children's scholarship fund if a student qualifies, to pay for certain educational expenses such as, tuition and fees at a private school, tutoring, textbooks, computers, among other items. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would repeal the act authorizing toll facilities on state roads. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would suspend the gross earnings tax on electric and gas companies until January 1, 2036. This act would take effect on January 1, 2027.

This act would require that healthcare professionals provide written informed consent signed by the recipient, or in the case of a minor child, by a parent or guardian prior to administration of a vaccine. It would prohibit discrimination against individuals who refuse or delay vaccines. The act would also provide for civil recovery and fines of up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for violations. It would further prohibit DCYF from investigating a parent/guardian for their failure to vaccinate their child This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would prohibit gender transition procedures for all minors, use of public funds for that purpose, discipline for health care providers for providing same, a thirty (30) year statute of limitation, after reaching the age of majority, and right to a civil action for damages. This act would take effect on January 1, 2027.

This act would require the public utility commission (PUC) in conjunction with the division of public utilities and carriers (DPUC) to produce a comprehensive study for the general assembly by April 30, 2027, to be transmitted to the governor, speaker of the house and the senate president. The study would require the PUC and the DPUC to review all energy programs, compare them with other states and formulate a plan to lower energy costs for consumers in this state. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would require that agencies preparing economic impact statements for proposed rules applying to small businesses contain a finding that the anticipated compliance costs of the proposed rule scale proportionally with the business size, and do not impose fixed costs that larger businesses are able to absorb more easily. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would prohibit the imposition of fees associated with home modifications that are specifically required to accommodate a veteran’s disability. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would authorize the administrator of the division of motor vehicles to make available special license plates for the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association. This act would take effect six (6) months after passage.

Senate Resolution Urging The Governor To Conduct A Veterans Home Workforce Analysis To Guide Policy And Budget Decisions (creates The Rhode Island Veterans Home Staffing Support Act Of 2026.)

This act would define "military-connected student" and permit military-connected students to enroll by remote registration upon presentation of military orders confirming that the parent or guardian shall be stationed in this state during the current or following school year. This act would take effect upon passage.

Senate Resolution Respectfully Condemning The Assaults On Police Officers In New York During The Blizzard And Urging Investigation And Accountability

This act would mandate that interscholastic or intramural athletic teams that are sponsored by a public school or a private school whose teams compete against a public school, be designated as: (1) "males", "men" or "boys"; (2) "females", "women" or "girls"; or (3) "coed" or "mixed". It would prohibit athletic teams designated for "females", "women" or "girls" to be open to male students but would allow any student to participate in any sport designated as being for "males", "men", "boys", "coed" or "mixed". The act would also prohibit a government entity, licensing, accrediting or athletic organization from entertaining a complaint, investigating or taking adverse action against a school for maintaining separate teams for students of the female sex. Further, the act would allow private causes of action for damages sustained as a result of violations of the act affecting students and schools. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would establish a property tax deferral program for senior citizens, disabled persons or veterans. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide that an individual school district that utilizes its own buses or vendors to transport students outside the district, at a lower cost than the statewide school transportation system, could submit these costs to the department of elementary and secondary education and receive reimbursement from state funds. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would increase the minimum hourly wage commencing January 1, 2028, 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 2027. This act would take effect upon passage.

This act would provide measures to prevent title fraud by authorizing the recorder of deeds to require the production of a government-issued photographic identification card before recording a deed or certain other instruments and providing for a separate cause of action to quiet title after an attempted fraudulent conveyance. This act would take effect on January 1, 2027, and would apply to instruments presented for recording on or after that date.

This act would provide services for veterans in the criminal justice system ensuring disclosure and connections with federal and state resources. This act would take effect upon passage.

Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study Shared Services And The Potential For Regionalization Of School Districts In The State Of Rhode Island (creates A 9 Member Commission To Study Shared Services And The Potential For Regionalization Of School Districts, And Who Would Report Back To The Senate By April 15, 2027, And Whose Life Would Expire Once Its Report Is Issued.)

This act would require that in the town of Coventry, local regulations shall require approval of the permitting authority for both private and public improvements prior to final plan approval. This act would take effect upon passage.

Senate Resolution Celebrating "uri Day" At The Rhode Island State House On March 26, 2026

Senate Resolution Commemorating March 25, 2026, As The 205th Anniversary Of Greek Independence Day And Celebrating Democracy In Greece And The United States

Senate Resolution Congratulating The Winners Of The 2026 14th Annual Prostart® High School Competition And Wishing Them Success At The National Prostart® Invitational

This act would create an exemption from property taxes in the amount of $5,000 for any veteran of the military or naval service of the United States who is determined, under applicable federal law by the Veterans’ Administration of the United States to be totally disabled through a service-connected disability in the town of Exeter. This act would take effect upon passage.

Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences On The Passing Of Raymond Pouliot

Senate Resolution Proclaiming May 10th, 2026, To Be "lupus Day" In The State Of Rhode Island

Senate Resolution Recognizing And Celebrating June 14, 2026 As "national Flag Day" In The State Of Rhode Island