| S0984 | Pass | Joint Resolution Requesting That The Cannabis Control Commission Provide The General Assembly With Recommendations On Legislation To Regulate And License Cannabinoids And Hemp-derived Beverages (authorizes The Sale Of Thc-infused Beverages To Be Regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1018 | Pass | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of a Class B liquor license for the property located at 1039 Douglas Avenue in the city of Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0985 | Pass | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE -- RENTAL VEHICLE COVERAGE - Restricts private vehicle property damage insurance coverage for a rental passenger vehicle, to the named insured and drivers listed on that private policy, unless the designated driver is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6231 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6135 | Pass | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of a Class B liquor license for the property located at 1039 Douglas Avenue in the city of Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1145 | Pass | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6091 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0213 | Pass | PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES - Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1043 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Adds the property of the Pokanoket Management Group, Trustee of the Pokanoket Tribe Land Trust, to the list of property designated for appropriations in lieu of municipal property tax, would concurrently exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5522 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires the rule adopting agency to send a copy of the certified rule to all members of the general assembly, within twenty (20) days of filing a final rule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6053 | Pass | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 75% to 80% of the fair marke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1132 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and personal property of the Rhode Island Business Development Institute located at 220 Smith Street, Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6291 | Pass | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Adds the property of the Pokanoket Management Group, Trustee of the Pokanoket Tribe Land Trust, to the list of property designated for appropriations in lieu of municipal property tax, would concurrently exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1125 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6032 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6079 | Pass | INSURANCE -- LIABILITY INSURANCE -- RENTAL VEHICLE COVERAGE - Restricts private vehicle property damage insurance coverage for a rental passenger vehicle, to the named insured and drivers on that private policy, unless the designated driver is specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6137 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special registration plate for the private passenger motor vehicle for former fire chief of the Hopkins Hill Fire District, Frank M. Brown, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6270 | Pass | Joint Resolution Requesting That The Cannabis Control Commission Provide The General Assembly With Recommendations On Legislation To Regulate And License Cannabinoids And Hemp-derived Beverages (requests That The Cannabis Control Commission Conduct A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5031 | Pass | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of Class BV liquor licenses for the properties located at 94 Carpenter Street and 1023 Broad Street, both in the city of Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5025 | Pass | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6086 | Pass | Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of The Kane-barrengos Foundation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0902 | Pass | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 85% of the fair market value...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-05
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5477 | Pass | 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”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S1152 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H6286 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5701 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- CANCER BENEFITS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS - Makes the provisions of §§ 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0828 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0458 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- CANCER BENEFITS FOR FIRE FIGHTERS - Makes the provisions of §§ 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0957 | Pass | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT CLERKS' INCENTIVE PAY - Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal § 8-4.1-6 regarding addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S0174 | Pass | 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”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5372 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Effective without Governor's signature |
| H5165 | Pass | EDUCATION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAMS - Requires the school board or committees of cities and towns to establish a safety and behavioral health committee and also lays out the representation requirements committee responsibilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0603 | Pass | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES - Provides standards for developing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0901 | Pass | INSURANCE -- MOTOR VEHICLE APPRAISAL PROVISION - 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 eq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0749 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR LICENSING - Requires that, beginning January 1, 2028, all contractors structurally remodeling or building new residential structures with 1 to 4 family dwelling units be licensed by the contractors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0649 | Pass | INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Provides for the sale and regulation of pet insurance policies and their contents and provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0179 | Pass | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS AND DUTIES TEACHERS GENERALLY -- SEPTEMBER 11 CLASSROOM MOMENT OF SILENCE - Allows teachers in all grades to provide the opportunity for students to observe a brief moment of silence on every September 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0672 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS - Provides that architects and other authorized disaster response workers be considered, in the course of performing their duties, state workers and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5187 | Pass | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee," and clarifies that the board may defer a pending unfair labor practice charge to allow for the grievance and arbitration process to move forward pursuant to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5517 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0166 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the administration of all forms of influenza immunizations including COVID-19 to individuals over the age of 3 years pursuant to a valid prescript...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5464 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Repeals the exemption granted to pari-mutuel facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement and provides for a one time appropriate of $1,000,000 to inform patrons of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5494 | Pass | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5046 | Pass | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0671 | Pass | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5768 | Veto | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - DMV to provide credit for portions of unused voluntarily cancelled vehicle registrations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| S0439 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0235 | Pass | EDUCATION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAMS - Requires the school board or committees of cities and towns to establish a safety and behavioral health committee and also lays out the representation requirements committee responsibilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| S0792 | Pass | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND KRATOM ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| H5157 | Pass | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
