Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 92)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0633

Introduced
3/7/25  
EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' TENURE - Requires the names of any noncredentialled school employee who is terminated for good and just cause, to be furnished to the department of education.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0649

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Provides for the sale and regulation of pet insurance policies and their contents and provisions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0648

Introduced
3/7/25  
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0629

Introduced
3/7/25  
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNIT PRICING - Provides that an electronic shelving label by itself would not satisfy the disclosure and display requirements for unit pricing by way of the attachment of a stamp, tag or label to the commodity.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0683

Introduced
3/7/25  
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE - Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements to allow non-physician healthcare providers to enter into such agreements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0680

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSENT TO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CARE - Requires that an individual's caregiver be present when healthcare decisions are discussed with the hospice team. It would also prevent a denial of home hospice care because of age or income.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0635

Introduced
3/7/25  
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires immediate notification to the person in charge of the educational program when a child has a cardiac emergency and the head of the educational program must notify the department of education within 24 hours.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0630

Introduced
3/7/25  
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTRIC AND GAS BILLS ACT - Requires electric and gas utilities to provide a detailed breakdown of supply, delivery, and public policy costs on electric and gas bills, including specific costs for renewable energy sources, and mandates public comment and PUC approval.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0653

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
EDUCATION -- THE ONWARD WE LEARN SCHOLARSHIP ACT - Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program or the Rhode Island Hope Scholarship program to be reimbursed to the onward we learn for any scholarships paid on behalf of Rhode Island College students.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0681

Introduced
3/7/25  
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Amends powers/duties of the office of the health insurance commissioner to increase total cost of care for services reimbursed under contracts after risk adjustment that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers percentage increase.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0651

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities. That choose to participate. Reports would be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and would be submitted to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0682

Introduced
3/7/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY - Requires hospitals to have a notary on staff all hours of the day and week.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0632

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting The Governor, The Director Of The Rhode Island Department Of Transportation (ridot), And The Rhode Island Department Of Transportation To Explore Increasing The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (mbta) Evening Service To The Wickford Junction/providence/stoughton Line On Weekdays And Initiating A Weekend Schedule
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0650

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER POLLUTION - Effective September 1, 2025, requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0627

Introduced
3/7/25  
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT - Establishes regulations to ensure the ethical development, integration, and deployment of high-risk AI systems, particularly those influencing consequential decisions.