Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 139)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0741
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Amends several statutes relating to elections and the dates for primaries and dates within which to file nomination papers and object to nomination papers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0733
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires the court to set reasonable bail for all those individuals who appear before it as probation violators and establish a presumption of personal recognizance unless the new alleged offense is a crime of violence as defined in the act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0641
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state property.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0668
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT - Requires that any state agency, state institution of higher education, and quasi-public agency that engages in printing more than 50 copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use a state-owned or operated print shop.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0687
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0707
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2025 - Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the health insurance coverage through the Rhode Island health benefits exchange.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0725
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of The Legislative Power (proposes A State Constitutional Amendment That No Department Or Other Entity Created By The State Would Have Poser To Incur Debt In Excess Of $ 50,000, Without Express Approval From The Legislature And Voters.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0640
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Passed
6/17/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION - Updates the statutory terminology by replacing the phrase "institutions of higher learning" with that of "educational institutions" and redefines child daycare centers as educational institutions.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0746
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- FOUNDATION LEVEL SCHOOL SUPPORT - Changes salary minimum schedule for providence teachers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0745
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' TENURE - Amends the teachers' tenure act for Providence public school teachers and provides a process for the dismissal and demotion for teachers or other persons assigned full-time to the school.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H6040
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUDICIAL SELECTION - Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 3 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and were chosen during the five years following their selection.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0675
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/1/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Defines Class 5 property to include the commercial portion of mixed use properties and fix the tax rate for Class 3 property at thirty-eight dollars and 33 cents ($38.33) per one thousand dollars ($1,000).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0383
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Requires the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency and the Rhode Island commerce commission to develop and implement a plan to assist businesses in obtaining flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance program.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0389
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- ESTABLISHMENT OF CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Provides that no new network charter school application shall be granted.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0386
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Allows RI to opt out of the provisions of DIDMCA exempting out of state lenders from interest rate limits which apply to RI lenders. Prevents evasion of statutory interest rate limits and lending rules for loans made in RI.