Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 126)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0314
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Engrossed
6/21/25
Passed
6/30/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the authority to impose sanctions for violations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5538
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the division of statewide planning, to be utilized for redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5493
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Refer
6/20/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0476
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
6/30/25
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0587
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- BENEFITS - Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0406
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Creates the Microplastics Reduction Act to prohibit the sale or distribution of products containing synthetic polymer micro particles.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0384
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND SPECIAL DEPOSITS ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Special Deposits Act to be governed by an account agreement between the bank and the depositor or its beneficiary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0468
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Refer
5/16/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST PROTECTION - Prohibits the state, participating ERISA, or any health plan from purchasing referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0431
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts certain urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. Also defines urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0543
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX - Defines a vape shop and exempt it from the prohibition of selling electronic nicotine-delivery system products.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0517
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0445
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER SAVINGS ACCOUNT ACT - Allows an individual, who is a first-time homebuyer, to contribute funds to a first- time homebuyers saving account with Rhode Island Housing to pay for eligible costs to purchase a home.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0441
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Repeals the act authorizing toll facilities on state roads.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0562
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5559
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows mobile salons to visit the houses of individuals with special needs or sensory-related disorders or differences in order to provide haircuts or hairdressing services.