Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 11)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5135

Introduced
1/22/25  
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparisons of wages/hourly conditions of employment in similarly skilled jobs.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5111

Introduced
1/22/25  
EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Directs the council on elementary and secondary education to develop recommendations for a high school curriculum to prepare students for successful postsecondary education and careers in computer science.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5103

Introduced
1/22/25  
PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Prohibits landlords from inquiring about an applicant's prior incarceration and from discriminating against those who have been released from prison.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5142

Introduced
1/22/25  
PUBLIC FINANCE -- REVENUE ESTIMATING CONFERENCES - Changes the timeframe of the Revenue Estimating Conferences meeting to within the last ten (10) days of April and the first ten (10) days of November of each year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5121

Introduced
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and the regulating of fees.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5138

Introduced
1/22/25  
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND LOBBYING REFORM ACT - Prohibits lobbyists from making any political contributions to any member of the general assembly from January 1 through July 1 in any year, unless the general assembly adjourns for the year prior to July 1.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5125

Introduced
1/22/25  
DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DOMESTIC ABUSE PREVENTION - Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint, including the enforcement remedy of a restraining order or other injunctive relief.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0016

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Creates a process for licensure/oversight by DBR over the practices/procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and regulation of fees.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0039

Introduced
1/23/25  
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0047

Introduced
1/23/25  
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Adjusts the motor fuel tax for inflation every two (2) years based on the inflation that has occurred in the previous two (2) years.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0015

Introduced
1/23/25  
INSURANCE-CASUALTY INSURANCE GENERALLY-LIMITATIONS ON POLICY CANCELLATIONS AND RENEWALS - Requires homeowner’s insurance providers to provide two months’ notice before increasing any policy more that 20%. Also caps rate increases for policy holders that are 65 years of age or older and meet certain income limits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0066

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability or as evidence of an admission.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0018

Introduced
1/23/25  
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Effective July 1, 2025, provides that, the profit margin of any electric distribution company or gas distribution company, would not exceed 4%, in any calendar year and defines a "profit margin" as the return on equity that is allowed by the commission.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0045

Introduced
1/23/25  
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety on a hosting platform on or after January 1, 2026, for a period of thirty (30) nights or less.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0061

Introduced
1/23/25  
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND DATA PRIVACY ACT - Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.