Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 142)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0497
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/22/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
6/26/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Center for Southeast Asians.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0481
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
7/1/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0573
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0426
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an interruption in their benefits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0491
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Substitutes "housing resources commission" with "department of health" for lead hazard mitigation purposes. It also makes it easier for a property owner to release funds put into an escrow account, if needed to make required repairs or improvements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0591
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/26/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Engrossed
5/1/25
Passed
5/6/25
RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET RIVER BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet River Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet River Bridge.”
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0477
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health plan as of January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0388
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocate.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0547
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Allows school bus drivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut who have a valid CDL license in good standing be exempt from the licensing requirements in Rhode Island to transport school children.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0378
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Establishes an intervenor support program to provide compensation for an intervenor who makes a substantial contribution to a proceeding resulting in a decision favorable to the interest of utility consumers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0541
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be issued until the recount, if any, is completed.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0458
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/17/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/3/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- CANCER BENEFITS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS - Makes the provisions of §§ 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinance to the contrary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0511
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Removes the five (5) year waiting period for filing a motion to seal an eviction court file. It also deletes the numerical limitation on filing seal requests.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0478
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Establishes the scope of a certified professional midwife’s authority relating to prescribing medication to patients.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0380
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires the public utilities commission (PUC) to produce a report by January 1, 2026 and each January 1 thereafter, on the ability for the current electric grid to handle the electrification load need to power cars, buildings, and heating of homes.