PROVIDENCE — It's crunch time on Smith Hill, the final week of the annual General Assembly session, when issues debated for months are resolved in a flurry of votes and others are put off until next year.

Lawmakers have already legalized recreational marijuana and to-go cocktails, redrawn electoral district boundaries, allowed restaurants to keep pandemic-era outdoor dining for another year and eased rules around voting early and by mail. 

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They've passed a ban on high-capacity magazines and two other firearms bills in the wake of a mass shooting at a Texas school. 

And last week the House approved a $13.6-billion budget for next year with $250 million for housing programs and $250 election-year tax-credit checks to residents with children. 

The Senate is expected to vote on the budget Wednesday, which could be the last day of the legislative session, but recent history suggests they may need to come back Thursday to get everything done. 

Here are some of the big issues still on the table:

For years immigrant-rights activists have pushed to allow people living in the country without permission to get driver's licenses, but ran into a roadblock in the House, where former Speaker Nicholas Mattiello opposed the idea.

Last month the Senate passed a bill that would allow the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue driving privilege card permits to people  who can prove they are  residents who are paying taxes here.

On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee is set to vote on a matching version of the legislation, setting it up for a vote of the full House later in the week.

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House and Senate committees have held hearings on bills to repeal the prohibition on state-funded insurance coverage of state employees and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions.

In Democrat-dominated Rhode Island, the right to an abortion is already enshrined in state law.

But the fight continues with an uncertain outcome this year amid the heightened emotions sparked by a leaked draft of a potential U.S. Supreme Court decision repealing the Roe v. Wade ruling. 

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The argument for repealing the insurance restrictions in Rhode Island:  

"If you have money, you get a right to abortion. If you don’t and you can’t pay for it out of pocket, then your right isn’t real,'' according to the advocacy group known as The Womxn Project.

Caroline Dooley of Portsmouth was among the opponents who told legislators: "I do not want my tax dollars used to murder unborn children."

Last year, after months of debate and protest over incidents involving police, it seemed very likely that at least some change would be made to the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, which limits how departments discipline officers accused of misconduct.

But the sponsors of bills that would scale back that bill of rights and Assembly leaders never came to an agreement on exactly how far the changes should go.

The issue is still alive a year later, but some of the momentum behind it has dissipated, and it is unclear whether any progress has been made toward a deal.

"We're still working on it," Senate President Dominick Ruggerio said about Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights talks.

Have negotiations hit a stalemate?

"I wouldn't go that far," he said.

Faced with skyrocketing real-estate prices, other New England states this year have made big and, in some cases, controversial moves to make it easier for people to add new houses or apartments.

Rhode Island leaders have been wary of challenging local control or promoting construction where neighbors don't want it.

House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi is promoting an 11-bill housing policy package that has passed the House and is set for votes in the Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee on Wednesday.

The bills do things like elevate the state's new housing "czar" to a cabinet-level position, change the membership of a board that hears appeals from low-income housing developers, write a list of schools that could be turned into homes, encourage mobile home residents to buy the land they rent and allow towns that haven't met affordable housing goals to count more homes toward them.

The bill that might make the biggest difference in how people live and what neighborhoods look like would change the rules on accessory apartments, known formally as accessory dwelling units, or informally as in-law apartments or granny flats.

It would limit the ways cities and towns could block new accessory apartments and get rid of the rule that says occupants of the apartments have to be family members of the owners of the primary residents.

And in some spacious, leafy residential neighborhoods, those with half-acre lots, accessory apartments could be added "by right," without special permission from local officials. 

The budget passed by the House last week authorizes $250 million in federal funding for housing programs, including $10 million for a public housing pilot program. 

In response to the long-running battles between waterfront homeowners and beachgoers over where private property ends and public shore access begins, the House has passed a bill that widens the public corridor along the sand.

Instead of the invisible "mean high tide" boundary, which requires scientific surveys to determine, the boundary below which anyone can walk would be six feet above the line of seaweed, flotsam and "scum" left by the ocean.

Ruggerio has not shown any interest in a shoreline access bill – there is no Senate companion bill – but everything is negotiable.

Right now nobody is stopping e-bike users from riding wherever they take regular bicycles.

But electric bicycles of various types operate in a legal gray area and eventually someone might try to limit where they can be ridden.

A bill that would make e-bikes legal, but regulate how they should be used, has been proposed. The state Department of Transportation is opposed, saying e-bikes pose a "danger."

The Senate has also passed a bill written by Attorney General Peter Neronha and sought by organized labor that would make misclassification of employees, or wage theft as it is known by supporters of the legislation, a felony.

It is opposed by business groups and has not gotten a vote in the House yet.

The House is set to make a final vote Tuesday on a bill that would allow Providence to give an extra-long tax treaty to the owner of the Industrial Trust tower, to help redevelop the vacant skyscraper.

It would allow the city to grant a 30-year "tax stabilization" agreement to the Superman Building instead of the 20-year maximum deal allowed for other properties.