Rhode Island State Representative

Sherry Roberts 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H8035

Introduced
2/27/26  
Prohibits cities or towns that implement a rent control ordinance from raising property taxes and such prohibition would last for as long as the rent control ordinance is in effect.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7936

Introduced
2/27/26  
Creates the public health data privacy and protection act to regulate the reporting of information relating to reportable disease data in the possession of the department of health.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H8065

Introduced
2/27/26  
Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H8120

Introduced
2/27/26  
Allows the personal representative of a decedent’s estate to discharge the estate tax lien by recording with decedent’s municipality, a statement stating decedent’s gross estate does not require a state or federal estate tax filing pursuant to §44-22-1.1.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7426

Introduced
1/30/26  
Expands the scope of practice for nurse anesthetists with two years’ or more experience to remove the requirement of physician supervision.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7421

Introduced
1/30/26  
Increases transparency provisions and require reporting of the partially funded and unfunded school district costs.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7446

Introduced
1/30/26  
Eliminates mandated housing densities/density bonuses for public drinking water supply watersheds/groundwater. Requires densities not exceed water availability, introduce pollution, stay within public water or sewer system capacity limits.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7420

Introduced
1/30/26  
Amends the current law on education to address unfunded mandates.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7435

Introduced
1/30/26  
Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one year license suspension.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7449

Introduced
1/30/26  
Requires agencies preparing economic impact statements for small businesses contain findings that the anticipated compliance costs of a proposed rule scale proportionally with the business size, and do not impose fixed costs that favor larger businesses.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7459

Introduced
1/30/26  
Allows teachers to retire earlier upon what would be referred to as a Rule of 93, rather than the existing Rule of 95 under present state statutes.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7460

Introduced
1/30/26  
Provides local agencies with a mechanism to opt-out of statewide transportation upon a showing of a cost-effective alternative to the current fee-for-service model.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7682

Introduced
2/11/26  
Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H8063

Introduced
2/27/26  
Requires that court sentencing a person for first degree sexual assault of first degree child molestation, have the approval of the victim before imposing any negotiated sentence upon the offender.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H7447

Introduced
1/30/26  
Restores the requirement that a local review board issue findings for denial in reviewing a comprehensive permit request and clarifies that affordable housing units shall be included in each town and city when the building permits for units are granted.