Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 103)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5993
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- CERTIFICATION OF CHILDCARE AND YOUTH-SERVING WORKERS AND OPERATORS - Commences July 1, 2025, this act would eliminate the provision of this section that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their criminal background checks.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5909
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/16/25
Refer
6/20/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Makes all causes of action based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child not subject to any statute of limitations whether the claim has lapsed or was previously time-barred.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0482
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals".
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0455
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to $3,600,000 on January 1, 2026 and increases the exemption by $1,000,000 on January 1, 2027, and every year thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0509
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0411
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- OPTIONAL RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE AND FIREFIGHTERS - Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reaching age fifty-seven (57).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0381
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows providers of services under this section to visit the houses of individuals with special needs or sensory-related disorders or differences in order to provide haircuts or hairdressing services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0568
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/23/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires all school buses be equipped with video monitoring system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0422
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
Serves as the enabling act required by Rhode Island General Laws§ 16-7-44 in order for the principal and interest on bonds issued in support of school housing projects to be eligible for state housing aid reimbursement.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0392
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires that one third of all Rhode Island teachers, each year for the next 3 years, be trained in the basic emergency and response skills curriculum ("BEARS"), specifically in hand-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation/Heimlich maneuver/bleeding control.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0584
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS - Establishes a restricted receipt account at the DLT for hospitality industry workforce training grants, funded by an annual $50 dollar fee to be charged by RIDOH to food service establishments.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0391
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- SCHOOL TRAUMA KIT ACT - Requires every elementary and secondary school within the State of Rhode Island to provide and maintain clearly visible and easily accessible trauma kits within the school. It also provides immunity if assistance is rendered.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0513
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
ELECTION -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS - Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 and provide for existing polling places that exceed the maximum number of voters, not be required to be changed until the next decennial redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0585
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- E-VERIFY COMPLIANCE - Establishes the E-Verify compliance program which would require all non-governmental employers within the state with 3 or more employees to apply to participate in the federal E-Verify program and to agree to participate in the program, if accepted.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0523
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.