Representative • Democrat

Camille Vella-Wilkinson

Rhode Island • District HD-021

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 75

Not Voting: 159

Other: 2

Yea: 1792

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Camille Vella-Wilkinson

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Creates the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protect Act for data privacy protections for the personal data of the citizens of Rhode Island.

Requires hosting platforms offering short-term rental of residential property for tourist or transient use to disclose on listings the current, valid registration number and its expiration date.

Entitles holders of a life estate to real property to use any veteran's tax exemptions available to them.

Amends works program to provide eligibility for benefits to pregnant persons from onset of pregnancy including lawful permanent residents, increases monthly cash benefits, disallows termination of benefits for failure to work, limits monetary sanctions.

Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions.

Amends requirements regarding how taxicabs can be placed into service.

Modifies reporting requirements regarding collisions between vehicles and wildlife where the vehicle has been substantially damaged.

Requires employers in the state with more than 50 employees to display a poster containing basic information on veterans' benefits and services be created and distributed by the DLT in consultation with the office of veterans services.

Creates the law enforcement officer's due process accountability and transparency act.

Provides that the fifth day in April in each year be designated as "Rhode Island Gold Star Spouses Day" with appropriate exercises in public places and with flags flown at half-staff over the state house.

Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to five thousand dollars ($5,000) with respect to municipal taxes.

Requires one of the seven (7) directors of the Rhode Island airport corporation be appointed by the mayor of the city of Warwick.

Provides that gift certificates issued by state-chartered institutions of higher education would be exempt from the provisions of the gift certificate statute relating to expiration, escheatment, reissuance and refund.

Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information.

Authorizes the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition and support of The Preservation Society of Rhode Island.

Allows victims of violent crime receiving awards under the state's crime victim compensation program to use up to $1,000 of their total award to make reasonable modification to their residence to ensure their future safety.

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.

Establishes and funds an incentive program for landlords to offer reduced rents to eligible tenants. The program would be administered by the state department of housing with an appropriation of $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2024-2025.

Provides eligibility for an additional forty dollars ($40.00) per month in food stamp benefits to certain qualifying persons or households eligible for food stamp benefits, commencing July 1, 2024.

Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2024, utilizing funds from the general fund or the American Rescue Plan Act.

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.

Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.

Raises the earned-income tax credit from sixteen percent (16%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2025 and beyond.

Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social workers.

Phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a four (4) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to eighty percent (80%), beginning on or after January 1, 2025.

Extends the sunset provision of § 16-16-24.2 to June 20, 2026.

Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.

Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities.

Allows a criminal defendant before the superior court to waive their right to a jury trial with the consent of the attorney general.

Provides that every city and town must maintain a municipal veterans' service officer. Also authorizes a one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000) appropriation to be used to fund matching grants for the support and outreach for veterans.

Funds the state crime victim compensation program through an additional one dollar ($1.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.

Amend the standards for issuing Medicare supplemental insurance policies.

Authorizes the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority to enter into certain projects and procure related services including the transit center project, using design build contracting and progressive design build contracting.

Changes the service requirement for admissions to RI Veterans' Home from 90 days to 2 years, and gives priority to veterans defined as war veterans.

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.

Codifies the federal legislation pertaining to the federal Indian child welfare act into state law.

Creates a statutory framework designed to protect our forests and biodiversity, also prohibits logging in old growth forests and in the natural area preserves when they are created.

Requires that if state employee unions are engaged in contract negotiations and/or utilizing the dispute resolution process, all terms and conditions in the collective bargaining agreement shall continue to remain in effect.

Changes the requirements of quarterly meetings of the board to monthly meetings. The chairperson of the board would be the commissioner or acting commissioner of the office of energy resources.

Reduces the assessment by the Rhode Island Veterans Home against a resident's net income from eighty percent (80%) to fifty percent (50%).

Designates a special account for veterans' causes to be funded by Keno sales, less prizes and commissions, generated on Memorial Day and Veterans Day with disbursement pursuant to appropriation by the general assembly.

Creates new definition for the term "employee", for purposes of wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment insurance benefits, which deems a worker to be an employee, as opposed to an independent contractor.

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