Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 85)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0261
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax behind-the-meter batteries interconnected with a solar photovoltaic system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5530
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Beginning on July 1, 2025, allows state union employees to negotiate longevity payments in their collective bargaining agreements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0291
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Prohibits the civil arrest of any person who is attending court either on behalf of themselves or a family or household member. Any person who violates this act shall be subject to civil suit, and for contempt of court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0250
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates public schools (K-12) have one full-time certified social worker for every 250 students and allocates $2 million in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget for school districts and municipalities to hire additional social workers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5496
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
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 S0304
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT - Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0288
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
ELECTIONS -- GENERAL STATE OFFICERS - Provides that, for the general officers of the state, no person could be elected to the same general office more than twice.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0240
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the federal eligibility benchmark.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5502
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0450
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows teachers, state and municipal employees to retire upon the earlier of reaching age sixty (60) with thirty (30) years of service or the employee's retirement eligibility date under present state statutes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0397
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0559
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Refer
6/14/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/27/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0532
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/23/25
Report Pass
5/29/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Passed
6/10/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Allows boats and marine assets to utilize the overweight oversize annual blanket permit that was in effect until 2022, and for the resumption of the prior practice of permitting for boats and marine asset transportation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0515
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0529
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Passed
6/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Adds a provision in the statute relating to one way highways, providing an increased penalty when a motorist travels the wrong way on an interstate highway or an entrance or exit ramp connected to an interstate highway.