Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 147)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0806

Introduced
3/14/25  
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT - Provides that compensation comparability studies of senior management, documents discussed at an open meeting, annual contracting reports, list of current salaries and positions, and all policies and procedures of public corporations be made public.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0812

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMINENT DOMAIN - Allows the department of environmental management to acquire established foot paths by eminent domain in order to provide public access to streams, rivers, lakes and ponds.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0792

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND KRATOM ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0787

Introduced
3/14/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Supports the role of independent family council and makes the waiting list transparent by requiring nursing facilities with more than thirty percent (30%) self-pay residents to admit applicants on a first-come-first-served basis for non-private rooms.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0778

Introduced
3/14/25  
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a tax upon the endowment of a private institution of higher education equal to two percent (2%) upon each dollar over $1,000,000,000.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0828

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
5/7/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Refer
5/16/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an in-the-line-of-duty disability, unless contrary evidence is presented.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0791

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0822

Introduced
3/14/25  
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION - Provides that when 2 or more individuals associate to accomplish the crime of shoplifting, that they would be deemed to be associated for the particular purpose of shoplifting and be guilty of a felony.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0784

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $750,000 To Waterfire Providence (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of §750,000 To Waterfire Providence.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0781

Introduced
3/14/25  
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Redefines “farm” by reducing the amount of revenue from farm products required to be sold from ten thousand ($10,000) to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0796

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES - Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0777

Introduced
3/14/25  
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires that present and former employees, active and retired members, and beneficiaries receiving any retirement, disability or death allowance receive a $2,000 increase per year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0779

Introduced
3/14/25  
TAXATION -- WEALTH TAX - Imposes a wealth tax on Rhode Island individuals and entities at a rate of one percent (1%) of worldwide wealth.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0789

Introduced
3/14/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0775

Introduced
3/14/25  
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfer all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.