Rhode Island State Senator

Melissa Murray 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 14)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2084

Introduced
1/16/26  
Increase the personal needs allowance of nursing facility residents from $75.00 to $100 per month.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2078

Introduced
1/16/26  
Creates the School Libraries Act.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2108

Introduced
1/16/26  
Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2088

Introduced
1/16/26  
Provides the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develops a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside their district.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2079

Introduced
1/16/26  
Expands the requirement that all high schools and middle schools, whether they are publicly or privately run to maintain on site a functional AED while establishing and implementing a cardiac emergency response plan in these schools.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2171

Introduced
1/16/26  
Amends the OPA desk audit classification rules to eliminate supervising other employees as a factor for position upgrade eligibility.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2107

Introduced
1/16/26  
Establishes the healthcare worker platform and would require platforms offering healthcare shifts to register with the department of health by June 1, 2027, while, specifically, exempting them from being classified as nursing service agencies.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2139

Introduced
1/16/26  
Prohibits participation in federal school voucher tax credit for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations unless both the general assembly and the governor approve such participation.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2112

Introduced
1/16/26  
Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglycemia. No copayment or deductible would be required.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2111

Introduced
1/16/26  
Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in the state when those services are rendered.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2086

Introduced
1/16/26  
Exempts from the sales tax firearm safety equipment, storage devices, gun safes, gun cabinets, gun vaults, gun cases, strong boxes, cable locks, trigger locks and biometric locks.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2094

Introduced
1/16/26  
Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the RI promise scholarship program or the RI hope scholarship program, after Rhode Island college has satisfied all eligible scholarships to be reimbursed to onward we learn.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2110

Introduced
1/16/26  
Refer
1/16/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insurance contract.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2093

Introduced
1/16/26  
Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the community college of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2130

Introduced
1/16/26  
Requires all write-in votes, regardless of qualification, to be reported and published by the state board of elections, on its website.