Rhode Island State Senator

Valarie Lawson 2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2715

Introduced
2/27/26  
Establishes the criminal offense of real estate title fraud. Allows municipalities to refuse to record “suspicious documents” from persons who are not trusted submitters. Also creates penalties for real estate title fraud.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2737

Introduced
2/27/26  
Expands the benefit definitions to include a grandchild and care recipient and increases benefits period to 10 weeks for 2027 and 12 weeks for 2028 and provides a TDI/TCI opt-in option for self-employed workers.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2342

Introduced
1/29/26  
Introduced
1/30/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Places limits on the number of self-service checkout stations a grocery store can have and on the workload of employees assigned to monitor those checkout stations.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2367

Introduced
1/29/26  
Introduced
1/30/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Allows an individual, who is a first-time homebuyer, to contribute funds to a first-time homebuyer savings account with Rhode Island housing to pay for eligible costs to purchase a home and receive tax deductions and exemptions.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2418

Introduced
1/30/26  
Refer
1/30/26  
Report Pass
4/29/26  
Engrossed
5/5/26  
Includes veterans 75 years or older with a combined service connected disability rating of 70% as eligible for disabled veterans license plates.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2406

Introduced
1/30/26  
Requires that any covered entity that develops/provides online services, products, or features that children are reasonably likely to access shall consider the best interest of children when designing/developing such online service, product, or feature.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2742

Introduced
2/27/26  
Creates a new chapter to provide for non-charitable bingo by the state lottery division.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2677

Introduced
2/27/26  
Restates the UTGR Master Contract and the Twin River-Tiverton Master Contract and consolidates the marketing program of each into the Consolidated Marketing Program.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2823

Introduced
3/4/26  
Establishes a child tax credit in the amount of six hundred fifty dollars ($650) for eligible taxpayers adjusted for inflation annually commencing January 1, 2027.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2902

Introduced
3/4/26  
Precludes a legal entity from owning property whose value is over $25,000,000. If the property value exceeds $25,000,000, then the entity must divest a graduated yearly amount over the next 10 years, until value is less than $25,000,000.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2810

Introduced
3/4/26  
Provides for penalties for tax preparers that purposefully mislead their clients or act as ghost preparers of tax returns.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2339

Introduced
1/29/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Hospital Conversions act amended to authorize AG and DOH to permit expedited review application for hospital insolvency proceedings. Sunsets in one year.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2340

Introduced
1/29/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Report Pass
2/10/26  
Engrossed
2/10/26  
MAKING REVISED APPROPRIATIONS IN SUPPORT OF FY 2026 RELATING TO ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER AND OUR LADY OF FATIMA HOSPITAL AND AUTHORIZING THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND TO PROVIDE FINANCING SUPPORT TO ASSIST THE SALE OF THE HOSPITALS TO CHARTERCARE HEALTH OF RHODE ISLAND,
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2413

Introduced
1/30/26  
Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI and honoring the late Maryellen Goodwin.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2379

Introduced
1/30/26  
Commencing January 1, 2027, mandates insurers provide health insurance coverage without cost-share requirements for vaccinations recommended by the DOH and mandates the coverage for the medical assistance program and managed care organizations.