Rhode Island State Senator

Melissa Murray 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 15)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2853

Introduced
3/4/26  
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 S2877

Introduced
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
4/14/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing January 1, 2027.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2876

Introduced
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
4/14/26  
Engrossed
4/28/26  
Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler, prescription device, or prescription equipment to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2829

Introduced
3/4/26  
Adds a new category to the eligibility of childcare assistance to include a "protective services category" which would include foster or kinship children served through DCYF.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2863

Introduced
3/4/26  
Requires the state, and private insurers that cover prescription hormone therapy, to dispense twelve (12) months’ worth of the prescription as a single prescription.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2883

Introduced
3/4/26  
Authorizes the department of children, youth and families to license mobile response and stabilization services (MRSS).
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2870

Introduced
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
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.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2842

Introduced
3/4/26  
Commencing on 7/1/2026, allows members, state and municipal employees to retire when they have at least 28 years of active service and their retirement age, when combined with the number of their years of service reaches, the number 85.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2811

Introduced
3/4/26  
Creates a publicly funded program for uninsured individuals requiring on an appropriation of $53,200,000 for fiscal year 2027 and an appropriation of 109,600,000 for fiscal year 2028 and every fiscal year thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2862

Introduced
3/4/26  
Allows foreign-trained dentists and dental hygienists to obtain limited licenses if they graduate from reputable dental colleges or universities, work under a supervising dentist, and pass a board-approved exam.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2796

Introduced
3/4/26  
Requires the producer of artificial turf and turf infill sold or distributed in RI to report its chain of custody, from installation to use, repurposing, recycling and disposal to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2773

Introduced
3/4/26  
Permits eating and drinking establishments to accept consumer-provided containers to fill or refill with takeout food or beverages.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2769

Introduced
3/4/26  
Establishes minimum limitations standards for structural property damage claims, and voids any policy provision, endorsement, condition, limitation, agreement, or claim practice that shortens those standards.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2873

Introduced
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
Requires inspection and evaluation of indoor air quality in public schools, departments of health shall establish and recommend thresholds and rates for environmental conditions.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2868

Introduced
3/4/26  
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.