Rhode Island State Senator

Bridget Valverde 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 8)

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2468

Introduced
2/6/26  
Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by allowing medical providers to request step therapy exceptions.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2473

Introduced
2/6/26  
Addresses any single-family construction, townhouse construction, and multi-family construction complying with the Standards for Visitable Units of the ANSI' Standards for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2009

Introduced
1/8/26  
SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATH OF RENEE NICOLE GOOD IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA AND URGING THE FBI TO ENSURE A FULL INVESTIGATION
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2033

Introduced
1/9/26  
Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs may include the name of the dispensing healthcare practice instead of the name of the dispenser.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2017

Introduced
1/9/26  
Provides that the school year for all public schools, including traditional public and public charter schools, independent charter schools, and mayoral academies, would start on the same date of each calendar year.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2018

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
Report Pass
3/4/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE, PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION (Amends the constitution to guarantee Rhode Island residents with equal opportunity to receive an education that is adequate, equitable and meaningful and provides judicial enforcement of this provision.)
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2032

Introduced
1/9/26  
Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2031

Introduced
1/9/26  
Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2046

Introduced
1/9/26  
Prohibits family court from detaining or committing any youth,12 years or younger, to training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault, or an attempt to commit such offenses there is no other reasonable placement.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2028

Introduced
1/9/26  
Imposes a sales tax on digital advertising services.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2050

Introduced
1/9/26  
Allows an owner or owners of real property to execute a deed that names one or more beneficiaries who will obtain title to the property at the owner's death without the necessity of probate.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2016

Introduced
1/9/26  
Adds "media literacy" to the standards currently taught in civic education for K-12, which are the history of Rhode Island, representative government, the rights and duties of actively engaged citizenship and the principles of democracy.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2049

Introduced
1/9/26  
Establishes a program within the adult correctional institution to permit medication assisted treatment approved by the FDA to be provided for the treatment of opioid use disorder to any incarcerated individual.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2051

Introduced
1/9/26  
Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2056

Introduced
1/9/26  
Disqualifies individuals with prior felony convictions or nolo contendere pleas from purchasing or possessing a firearm. It also prevents the sentencing judge from suspending the first two (2) years of any sentence under limited circumstances.