Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 55)
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2409
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
Report Pass
4/8/26
Engrossed
4/16/26
Refer
4/17/26
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize binding arbitration and establishes 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 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7456
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates public schools (K-12) have one full-time certified social worker for every 250 students and allocates $2 million in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget for school districts and municipalities to hire additional social workers.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7418
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY - Provides for the creation of medical and dental schools at the University of Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7467
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Removes the requirement that 5% of the hotel tax generated from regional tourism districts be paid to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau, and adds that 5% of the hotel tax to the existing tax paid to the RI commerce corporation.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7442
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- INSPECTION OF PERSONNEL FILES - Expands the obligations of employers to create, maintain and retain their employees' personnel records, it requires that records be retained for at least 3 years after employee's termination. It also increases the financial penalties for each violation.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2374
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on or after the new July 1, 2012, cutoff date.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7465
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND FIRE SERVICES TRAINING FUND ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Fire Services Training Fund.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2388
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DETERMINATION OF NEED FOR NEW HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH SERVICES - Imposes a moratorium on the issuance of new home care provider, home nursing care provider and hospice provider licenses prior to 7/1/2031, and provides for health systems planning specific to these provider licenses during the moratorium by the DOH.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2392
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Allows parents or guardians to have access to GPS data of the bus or other motor vehicle used to transport students to and from school.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7462
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
HUMAN SERVICES -- CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM COPAYMENTS - Codifies child care copayments in law, expand zero copays to families under 125% FPL, lower costs for working families, and cap most copayments at 6% while preserving a 7% statutory maximum.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7438
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Provides that all extended benefits offered by DCYF to foster children shall be extended to children placed in guardianship.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7417
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
EDUCATION -- THE SAVE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the Save Rhode Island School Libraries Act.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2400
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year it is promulgated, before it can become effective.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7430
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
House Resolution Respectfully Urging The United States Congress To Protect Patients And Traditional Medicare From Medicare Advantage
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H7416
Introduced
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
EDUCATION -- GUARANTEED ADMISSION FOR EAGLE SCOUT AND GOLD AWARD RECIPIENTS - Grants automatic admission to state public institutions for qualified Eagle Scout and Gold award recipients from the Girl Scouts.