Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 47)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0491
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Substitutes "housing resources commission" with "department of health" for lead hazard mitigation purposes. It also makes it easier for a property owner to release funds put into an escrow account, if needed to make required repairs or improvements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0482
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals".
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0455
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to $3,600,000 on January 1, 2026 and increases the exemption by $1,000,000 on January 1, 2027, and every year thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0590
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the chair and vice chair of the committee.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0522
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Requires all write-in votes, regardless of qualification, to be reported and published by the state board of elections, on its website.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0450
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Allows teachers, state and municipal employees to retire upon the earlier of reaching age sixty (60) with thirty (30) years of service or the employee's retirement eligibility date under present state statutes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0503
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Create a process to establish a low- or moderate-income housing that exceeds sixty (60) units.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0393
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- FAILING SCHOOL CHOICE ACT - Permits students at failing schools to enroll in any public school and also established the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0378
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Establishes an intervenor support program to provide compensation for an intervenor who makes a substantial contribution to a proceeding resulting in a decision favorable to the interest of utility consumers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0585
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- E-VERIFY COMPLIANCE - Establishes the E-Verify compliance program which would require all non-governmental employers within the state with 3 or more employees to apply to participate in the federal E-Verify program and to agree to participate in the program, if accepted.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0541
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be issued until the recount, if any, is completed.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0523
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0452
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID - Establishes a statewide “Healthy School Meals for all” universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0591
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/26/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Engrossed
5/1/25
Passed
5/6/25
RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET RIVER BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet River Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet River Bridge.”
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0477
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health plan as of January 1, 2026.