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H5794Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub B as amended in concurrence
H6233Enroll
75%
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Center for Southeast Asians.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
H5798Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
H5353Engross
50%
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an i...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5477Intro
25%
Joint Resolution To Establish A Statewide Main Street Coordinating Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Formal Establishment Of “main Street Rhode Island”.)
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2025-06-21
Senate passed as amended in concurrence
S0017Engross
50%
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provide that advertising goods that don't include a price referencing all mandatory fees and charges shall be a deceptive trade practice.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence
H5517Enroll
75%
ELECTION -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS - Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 and provide for existing polling places that exceed the maximum number of voters, not be required to be changed un...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
H5247Engross
50%
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Provides that advertising goods that don't include a price referencing all mandatory fees and charges shall be a deceptive trade practice.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
S1163Enroll
75%
Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Hopkinton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Hopkinton.
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2025-06-21
House passed in concurrence
S1164PassSenate Resolution Congratulating Dr. Rosemary A. Costigan, Ph.d., Rn, On Her Selection As President Of The Community College Of Rhode Island
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2025-06-21
Senate read and passed
H6066Engross
50%
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Increases the taxable wage base for TDI claims from $38,000 to $100,000 or the annual earnings needed by an individual to qualify for the maximum weekly benefit amoun...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H6255Engross
50%
Joint Resolution Creating A Special Joint Legislative Commission To Study The Return Of Central Falls Schools To Local Governance (authorizes The City Of Central Falls, Via Home Rule Charter Or City Ordinance, To Create A School Board With All Powers...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H6231Enroll
75%
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of a Class B liquor license for the property located at 1441 Mineral Spring Avenue in the town of North Providence.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
S1165PassSenate Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of The Ordination Of Father Bernard A. Healey To The Priesthood On June 24, 2025
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2025-06-21
Senate read and passed
H5804Engross
50%
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Amends the composition of the building code standards committee and would make several technical amendments relative to the building code office and would establish a state building code office within the of...
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub B as amended in concurrence
H6429PassHouse Resolution Congratulating Dr. Rosemary A. Costigan, Ph.d., Rn, On Her Selection As President Of The Community College Of Rhode Island
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2025-06-21
House read and passed
H6428PassHouse Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of The Ordination Of Father Bernard A. Healey To The Priesthood On June 24, 2025
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2025-06-21
House read and passed
S0314Engross
50%
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the auth...
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence
S1088Enroll
75%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends several definitions relating to low- or moderate-income housing as well as the procedure for the approval of low- or moderate-income housing.
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2025-06-21
House passed in concurrence
S1086Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION - Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
H6038Enroll
75%
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
S1087Enroll
75%
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Provides for the establishment and operation of an electronic permitting platform for all state and local permitting.
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2025-06-21
House passed in concurrence
H6091Enroll
75%
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES-CENTRAL FALLS - Allows Central Falls to exempt the property located at 913-915 Dexter Street, AP 7, Lot 156 from the law that prohibits any proposed retailers’ license of any class located within two hundred f...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
H6409Intro
25%
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Authorizes the town of Glocester to levy a supplemental tax, by voter referendum, that exceeds the current tax cap by three percent (3%) for fiscal year 2026, to fund school operations and avoid the lo...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed as amended in concurrence
S1084Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence
H5218Enroll
75%
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effe...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
H5562Enroll
75%
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLICITATION BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS - Provides that charitable organizations with a gross income of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or less can meet the required reporting and records requirements by providing eith...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
S1091Enroll
75%
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Amends the provisions under which a city or town may exceed the maximum levy for the assessment of local taxes.
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2025-06-21
House passed in concurrence
H5714Engross
50%
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5322Engross
50%
EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
S1092Enroll
75%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds an additional purpose to the standard provisions list that a zoning ordinance is required to address.
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2025-06-21
House passed in concurrence
H6054Intro
25%
INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE APPRAISAL - Changes the process by which a dispute between the insured and their insurance company, concerning property damages and requires that the umpire appraisers shall be disinterested and the cost shared equally.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed as amended in concurrence
S0084Engross
50%
INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prohibits casualty insurers from assessing any premium surcharge or penalty against an insured solely for inquiring about the terms of the insured's policy.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
H6286Enroll
75%
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- DOMESTIC ASSAULT - Provides that law enforcement officers who appears before the court for prosecution of a violation of a protective order shall self-certify that the officer has successfully completed a speci...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence
H5793Engross
50%
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Amends the provisions under which a city or town may exceed the maximum levy for the assessment of local taxes.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5872Engross
50%
ELECTIONS -- DECEPTIVE AND FRAUDULENT SYNTHETIC MEDIA IN ELECTION COMMUNICATIONS - Creates the deceptive and fraudulent synthetic media in election communications chapter to regulate the use of synthetic media in elections.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5967Engross
50%
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Establishes that a renewable energy resource shall pay $5.00 per kilowatt of alternating current nameplate capacity for tangible property and $3.50 per kilowatt of alternating nameplate capacity for re...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5570Engross
50%
INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Prohibits casualty insurers from assessing any premium surcharge or penalty against an insured solely for inquiring about the terms of the insured's policy.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub B in concurrence
H5229Engross
50%
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING - Authorizes the establishment of a Rhode Island housing champion designation program and makes qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including d...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
H5427Engross
50%
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H6118Engross
50%
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to eligible individuals enrolled as plan beneficiaries.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
S1085Enroll
75%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds a definition for "co-living housing" to the zoning ordinance provisions of the general laws and would include such housing as a special provision to be included in a zoning ordinance.
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2025-06-21
House passed in concurrence
H5796Intro
25%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds an additional purpose to the standard provisions list that a zoning ordinance is required to address.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed as amended in concurrence
H6173Engross
50%
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- RHODE ISLAND ANTI-BID-RIGGING ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Anti-Bid-Rigging Act.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5076Engross
50%
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2026
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2025-06-21
Transmitted to Governor
H5795Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence
S1083Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence
H6032Engross
50%
INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE - Requires at fault insurance companies to provide to any claimant whose vehicle is damaged in an accident, to provide a vehicle that is comparable to the claimant’s vehicle and that rental charges shall be based on...
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5557Engross
50%
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AND REGULATION OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS - Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island.
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2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
H5800Engross
50%
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds "providing for residential development in all or some of the areas encompassing commercial districts" as a purpose a zoning ordinance must address.
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2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence
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