Rhode Island State Senator

Pamela Lauria 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2666

Introduced
2/27/26  
Requires Medicaid to provide coverage for fertility medication, care, and services, for at least 3 cycles of fertility treatment, and intrauterine insemination.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2687

Introduced
2/27/26  
Requires health insurers to comply with federal mental health parity laws, prevent discriminatory treatment limits, and ensures meaningful mental health and substance use coverage in all benefit classifications.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2685

Introduced
2/27/26  
Provides coverage and increases individual and group insurance rates of reimbursement for ambulance services.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2688

Introduced
2/27/26  
Prohibits a healthcare provider from requiring patients to provide electronic payment information to be kept on file as a condition to receiving treatment and makes it a violation a deceptive trade practice.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2745

Introduced
2/27/26  
Names the India Point Park Overpass pedestrian bridge as the "Joseph M. Lima Overpass" to honor the former Deputy Majority Leader's legislative achievements and his lifelong dedication to the Portuguese-American community.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2662

Introduced
2/27/26  
Allows Rhode Island employers can help pay employees’ student loans in high-need fields if they work full-time for 2 years in undeserved areas and are in an income driven repayment plan. RISLA must provide annual reporting.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2720

Introduced
2/27/26  
Amends various sections of law relating to campaign contributions and expenditures, including prohibitions on self-dealing with committee funds and prohibits donations made in fictitious names.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2669

Introduced
2/27/26  
Requires Rhode Island Medicaid to cover services provided by licensed certified professional midwives and to collect utilization and cost data, while allowing limits consistent with Medicaid rules.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2660

Introduced
2/27/26  
Creates a tick control program to be implemented by the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2721

Introduced
2/27/26  
Creates the child-serving provider liability joint underwriting association to provide a joint underwriting association to provide liability insurance coverage for eligible child serving providers.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2671

Introduced
2/27/26  
Requires Medicaid to cover services by licensed certified lactation counselors and EOHHS to oversee and implement the program and track related costs and use. It also ensures reimbursement consistent with similar providers.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2710

Introduced
2/27/26  
Restricts the possession of prohibited firearms.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2707

Introduced
2/27/26  
JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING THE IMMIGRANT IMPACT TASK FORCE (Creates an 11-member task force to track and oversee immigration enforcement and support actions in Rhode Island, and who would report back to the General Assembly House no later than January 5, 2027, and whose life would expire on March 5, 2027.)
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2646

Introduced
2/27/26  
Regulates property insurers to limit underwriting and investment in fossil fuel projects, requires climate risk reporting and emissions disclosures, and aligns insurance practices with science-based climate targets.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2659

Introduced
2/27/26  
Requires the governor, when presenting his proposed budget articles for each fiscal year to set forth the climate considerations that were undertaken to move the state towards the mandated goals set forth in the 2021 Act on Climate.