Rhode Island State Senator

Melissa Murray 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 16)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2992

Introduced
3/4/26  
Creates the reproductive health and gender-affirming healthcare data privacy act.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S2888

Introduced
3/4/26  
Sets conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by the state board of pharmacy.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S2852

Introduced
3/4/26  
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 S2856

Introduced
3/4/26  
Includes routine, scheduled or recommended immunizations to individuals between the ages of three (3) and eighteen (18) years, under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2793

Introduced
3/4/26  
Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state property.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2855

Introduced
3/4/26  
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 Senate Bill S2892

Introduced
3/4/26  
Establishes a food as medicine pilot program and task force to be administered by the executive office of health and human services.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S2851

Introduced
3/4/26  
Authorizes pharmacists to order, perform and interpret CLIA-waived tests authorized by statewide protocol and prescribe medications, and permits coverage by all health insurance carriers.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2831

Introduced
3/4/26  
Appropriates two million seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) to fund the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the department of health.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2978

Introduced
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Provides that advanced practice registered nurses have the same immunity from liability as physicians and surgeons.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2984

Introduced
3/4/26  
Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires that those facilities provide in-person contact visits.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2946

Introduced
3/4/26  
Aligns the implementation date of youth camp licensing within the operational, and statutory framework of the Rhode Island department of human services and department of children, youth and families.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2981

Introduced
3/4/26  
Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person's transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharassment.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S3000

Introduced
3/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
5/14/26  
Engrossed
5/19/26  
Requires licensed retailers authorized to sell intoxicating beverages to provide a lid to a consumer upon request.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2787

Introduced
3/4/26  
Bars the council from granting approval to create or expand a charter school beginning operations in 26-27 school year and bars the state from approving or appropriating funds to a new charter school not approved before July 1, 2025.