Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 167)
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2852
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Allows patients to authorize providers to email medical notes or records, requires written consent acknowledging risks, and ensures compliance with HIPAA while expanding delivery options beyond fax or in-person pickup.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2853
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires hospital emergency rooms and free-standing emergency care facilities to offer and provide pregnancy prevention medication to victims of sexual assault.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2854
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Transfers responsibility for implementation of services for persons with traumatic brain injuries from the director of the department of human services to the EOHHS.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2855
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Permits students diagnosed with asthma, a condition that may lead to bronchospasm or anaphylaxis, or both, to carry and self-administer asthma medication or auto-injectable or intranasal epinephrine, or both.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2868
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Increases continuing education requirements for physician assistants, removes restrictions of PAs to render charitable care and aid for school and youth programs or cardiac arrest and removes restrictive covenants as to ownership by a PA.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2869
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMBRYO SAFETY AND STORAGE ACT - Creates the “Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2025.” Also requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2870
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Engrossed
3/24/26
Refer
3/25/26
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Requires any licensed lab performing blood lead analyses of a child under 6 to be certified by the director and said laboratory must perform this test regardless of the child or child’s parent’s ability to pay and at no cost.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2846
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Removes the definition of "totally and permanently disabled" from the general law affording college tuition paid by the state to the spouse and children of active members of the police force who are killed or disabled during duty.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2847
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
TAXATION -- STATE TAX OFFICIALS - Caps delinquent tax interest rate at 12%. Prohibits audits beyond 3 years from date of tax filing, 7 years for fraudulent filings, and in no event beyond 10 years from date of filing or required filing date, whichever is later.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2848
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Sojourner House In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Sojourner House To Support Its Permanent Housing Development Program That Provides Safe, Secure Housing To Individuals And Families Fleeing From Dangerous Situations.)
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2849
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2850
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Reduces funeral home inspections from twice a year to once a year and removes the practical exam requirement for out-of-state funeral directors and embalmers.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2871
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Engrossed
3/24/26
Refer
3/25/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2872
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
FOOD AND DRUGS -- COMPASSIONATE ACCESS TO MEDICAL CANNABIS ACT - Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2873
Filed/Introduced
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Engrossed
3/24/26
Refer
3/25/26
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires inspection and evaluation of indoor air quality in public schools, departments of health shall establish and recommend thresholds and rates for environmental conditions.