Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 67)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5405

Introduced
2/7/25  
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Establishes a restricted receipt account for the benefit of the Rhode Island public transit authority, funded by sales taxes collected from ride-share companies, which said sales taxes would be exempt from indirect cost recovery provisions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0201

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
5/15/25  
Enrolled
5/22/25  
VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON - Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Tiverton Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 5, 2024.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5388

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Enrolled
6/10/25  
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION - Makes a technical amendment to correctly reference a section of general law that allows for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Rhode Island organ transplant fund.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5339

Introduced
2/7/25  
EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Provides that for the period up until July 1, 2027, an applicant for a teaching certificate in Rhode Island would not be required to complete a standardized teacher's examination as a prerequisite to obtaining a teaching certificate.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5341

Introduced
2/7/25  
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- REGULATION OF BOATS -- FRESHWATER LAKE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Authorizes the collection of a small additional fee, in addition to the registration fee paid by motorboat owners, to be deposited in a restricted account, in order to fund the newly established freshwater lake management program.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0175

Introduced
2/7/25  
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits disclosure terms "down payment", "money down", or any similar language to describe lump sum payments in order to reduce monthly lease payments. Provides that lump sum payments are non-refundable in the event of a total loss of the vehicle.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0195

Introduced
2/7/25  
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. A disposition facility would be used for either cremation or natural organic reduction.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5365

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Engrossed
5/27/25  
Refer
5/30/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Enrolled
6/10/25  
FIDUCIARIES -- APPLICATION OF LAWS TO TRUSTS - Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her, or its individual capacity.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5376

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
5/15/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate would be divided equally between the general fund and the partnership not-for-profit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0212

Introduced
2/7/25  
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORDS AND TENANT ACT -- JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0198

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS - Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5378

Introduced
2/7/25  
MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- ORGANIZATION AND COMMAND OF MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES - Requires an official declaration of war or an action to call forth the state militia by the United States Congress before members of the National Guard may be released from state control to participate in active duty combat.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5332

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
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 House Bill H5375

Introduced
2/7/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit municipalities and water suppliers to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements and permit tenants to request and schedule private side lead service line replacements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5334

Introduced
2/7/25  
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.