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Tuesday, February 18, 2025Legislative Break Week The General Assembly is observing the annual February legislative break this week. Next Week At the State House – Finance Committee Hearings Most hearings for the week of February 25 – 27 will be posted this week. However, the House Finance Committee has provided extra preparation time for a few hearings by posting them last Friday. The information provided ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Economic, PoliticalMonday, February 10, 2025Legislative Break Next Week The General Assembly will observe the annual February legislative break next week. This Week At the State House Tuesday, February 11th Advertising Prices of Goods and Services The House Corporations Committee has H.5247 on its agenda Tuesday At the Rise (approximately 4:30pm) in Room 101. ...read moreCategories: Economic, General News Article, Political, Press ReleaseMonday, February 03, 2025This Week At the State House Tuesday, February 4th Retail Holiday Requirements for Juneteenth The House Corporations Committee, in Room 135 At the Rise (approximately 4:30 p.m.) will hear H.5250, An Act Relating to Businesses and Professions – Holiday Business. The bill adds Juneteenth National Freedom Day to the holiday requirements for retail establishments. In 2023, the General ...read moreCategories: Economic, Political, General News Article, Press ReleaseMonday, January 27, 2025What’s In the Governor’s Budget? Article 2 – Relating to State Funds · Under current law, municipal road and bridge projects must be on a priority list to obtain funding under the Municipal and Bridge Revolving Fund. Article 2 proposes to expand the eligibility to projects not on the priority list if the funding sought is to match federal, state, local or other funding. The Article also ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Press Release, Economic, PoliticalTuesday, January 21, 2025Governor McKee Unveils Budget The Governor released his budget January 16th. Over the next few editions of Advocacy in Action, we will share summaries of the various Articles of interest to the business community. The $14.2 billion budget includes program cuts, as well as targeted taxes and fees in an effort to deal with annual anticipated increased revenues of 2.5% coupled with increasing ...read moreCategories: Economic, Political, General News Article, Press ReleaseTuesday, August 06, 2024FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 6, 2024 CONTACT Olivia DaRocha Press Secretary Olivia.DaRocha@governor.ri.gov (401) 602-2701 PRESS RELEASE New England States Selected to Receive $389 Million in Federal Funding for Transformational Offshore Wind Transmission and Energy Storage Infrastructure Investments States secure highly competitive funds from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...read moreCategories: Political, General News Article, Press ReleaseTuesday, May 28, 2024This Week At the State House As we approach the last few weeks of session, most of the bills mentioned in this publication will be scheduled for a vote by the committee, with a few hearings sprinkled throughout. The House Finance Committee has not posted the budget yet, but is expected to do so at any moment. Tuesday, May 28th H.7837, An Act Relating to Labor and Labor Relations – ...read moreCategories: General News Article, PoliticalMonday, May 13, 2024Last Week At the State House Revenue Estimating Conference – The Numbers Are In The conferees completed their estimates during a seven-hour meeting Friday. The bottom line – in FY2024, total taxes are up $26.8 million with general revenues up $47.7 million. For FY2025, taxes are estimated to be $10.2 million more than originally thought, with general revenues up only $9.7 million more ...read moreCategories: General News Article, PoliticalMonday, April 29, 2024Last Week At the State House The Senate Labor Committee passed two bills of particular note, sending them to the Senate floor for a vote Tuesday, April 30th. S.2123 SubA, An Act Relating to Labor and Labor Relations – Payment of Wages, was amended by the committee. Today employers must include with wage payments, an account of the hours worked, deductions from gross earnings and an ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Economic, PoliticalWednesday, April 17, 2024Legislative Break April 15 – 20 The General Assembly is on vacation break this week. They will return April 23rd for the third phase of the session. This last phase is marked with the development and passage of the final budget which should take place in June. The House and Senate Finance Committees have almost completed hearings on the Governor’s proposed budget. They will now wait for the ...read moreCategories: Economic, Political, General News ArticleTuesday, April 09, 2024PRESS RELEASE Governor McKee, DEM, CRMC and RIIB Announce Availability of Nearly $4M in Grants for Resilience Projects to Protect Coastal Habitat Shoreline Access on Public Lands PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) are jointly soliciting project proposals for ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Economic, PoliticalMonday, April 08, 2024Call to Action – Now is the Time! The Chamber Needs Your Help! The Chamber is asking you to contact your State Representative and State Senator and let them know how H.7171 and S.2121 will affect your business. H.7171, An Act Relating to Labor and Labor Relations – Temporary Disability Insurance, (S.2121 is the identical bill) increases the weekly dependance allowance provided under ...read moreCategories: Economic, General News Article, PoliticalMonday, April 01, 2024Last Week At the State House S.2121, the Temporary Caregiver bill, passed the Senate Floor 31- 3. Minority Leader Jessica de la Cruz, Senator Anthony DeLuca and Senator Thomas Paolino voted against the bill. Absent from the vote were: Senator Elaine Morgan, Senator Louis Raptakis and Senator Gordon Roberts. The bill is now on its way to the House Labor Committee. While the bill passed the ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Economic, PoliticalMonday, March 25, 2024*** ACTION ALERT *** In a recent conversation with Legislative Leaders about legislation that could harm the business community, they remarked that they don't hear enough from business owners like you at the State House. The Chamber realizes that it is difficult to come to the state house and sit through a hearing because you are busy facing the challenges of running a business. However, you ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Press Release, Economic, PoliticalMonday, March 18, 2024Senate Labor Committee Passes Family Leave Bill On a 4-2 vote, the Senate Labor Committee recommended passage of S.2467, An Act Relating to Labor Relations – Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act. The bill increases the number of benefit weeks provided to employees from thirteen weeks every two years, to twenty-four weeks every two years. While the Chamber understands that this ...read moreCategories: General News Article, PoliticalMonday, March 11, 2024This Week At the State House Tuesday March 12th House Committee on Health & Human Services H.7694, An Act Relating to State Affairs and Government – RI Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 will be heard in room 135 at the Rise (approximately 4:30pm). H.7694 establishes a new program entitled “The Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Program” and funds it through a 2% ...read moreCategories: Political, General News ArticleTuesday, February 20, 2024This Week At the State House The legislature is on break this week. The House bill filing deadline has been extended to February 27th. Both the House and Senate will resume hearings and floor sessions Tuesday, February 27, 2024. US Chamber Asks for Your Help In 2017, Congress passed a permanent reduction to the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% as part of the Tax Cuts and ...read moreCategories: Political, Press ReleaseTuesday, February 20, 2024FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 16, 2024 CONTACT Olivia DaRocha Press Secretary Olivia.DaRocha@governor.ri.gov (978) 854-2191 PRESS RELEASE Governor McKee, DEM Announce over $200,000 in Grant Awards for Community Engagement on Climate Change, Advancing Environmental Justice, And Cutting Fossil Fuels PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee and the Department of ...read moreCategories: General News Article, Political, Press Release