Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 52)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0465
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
INSURANCE -- LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES AND RESERVES - Prohibits a person from being denied life insurance for preexisting conditions or previous denials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0379
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION - Provides amendments to procedures necessary for approval of transactions between utilities by giving the public utilities commission jurisdiction; mandates public hearings, allows intervention by any interested party and provides for appeal.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0474
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Passed
6/27/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0574
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Provides that a hearing required before a judge or magistrate may adjudge a motorist in contempt for failure to comply with the court's orders regarding a conditional hardship license, and defines penalties for violation of a hardship/interlock order.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0502
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/17/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Specifies that low and moderate income housing exists when a city or town has adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring that all housing developments include at least fifty percent (50%) low or moderate income housing units.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0464
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/26/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires every college in RI to train staff members in the student residential department, including RAs, to administer of opioid antagonists with protection from liability and prosecution.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0572
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTION -- SMALL CLAIMS AND CONSUMER CLAIMS - Simplifies the assessment of filing fees required to appeal from small claims and consumer matters adjudicated by the district court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0448
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0505
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Permit but not mandate, a municipality to allow certain requirements as exceptions to statewide treatment of ADUs to max of 800 sq. ft., owner, family member and caretaker occupation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0387
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
Report Pass
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0440
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND - Enhances and further define the role of the board of trustees of the University of Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0558
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0565
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0408
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Increases the membership of the energy facility siting board from 3 to 5 members and would revise the process of energy facility siting to mandate inclusion/participation of the host community of the facility as well as of the public and cities and towns.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0385
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION -- 2025 UTILITY COMPANY BILLING TRANSPARENCY ACT - Impose requirements and actions that certain electric distribution and gas distribution companies must meet prior to implementing rate changes.