| RI | S0908 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Removes the mandatory certification for an individual 16 years or older who was found delinquent for having committed 2 offenses after the age of 16 which would render the person subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0554 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT - Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5312 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0132 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- UNIFORM ACT ON PREVENTION OF AND REMEDIES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Requires that all monies received from the payment of fines under the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking be deposited into the into th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5645 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- LEVY AND SALE ON EXECUTION - Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5730 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Includes boats and marine-related assets in the blanket permit available for overweight or over-dimensional vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5311 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6165 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0739 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Makes all causes of action based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child not subject to any statute of limitations whether the claim has lapsed or was previously time-barred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5514 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5637 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CREDIT CARD CRIME ACT - Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5841 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0805 | Intro
25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- THE EQUITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND BUDGET EQUITY IMPACT ACT - Requires the Rhode Island general assembly to address its legislation with attention to equity and the impact its legislation will have on Rhode Island's diverse and vari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0213 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1071 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NONTRANSPARENT WINDSHIELD AND WINDOWS - Provides penalties for second and subsequent violations of installing and possessing a vehicle with sun screening materials in violation of this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5872 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5639 | Engross
50% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- KIDNAPPING - Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5563 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT - Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0825 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION - Funds the state crime victim compensation program through an additional one dollar ($1.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1073 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Makes it unlawful for a person in the custody of the department of corrections to use any force or weapon to resist a lawful request or directive.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0353 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Extends time for a party to apply for stay of arbitration to180 days; invalidates any provision that penalizes a party for seeking legal representation; requires arbitrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0559 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6159 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT SECRETARIES, COURT REPORTERS, AND ELECTRONIC COURT REPORTERS - Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6039 | Engross
50% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5644 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- NONTRANSPARENT WINDSHIELD AND WINDOWS - Provides penalties for second and subsequent violations of installing and possessing a vehicle with sun screening materials in violation of this section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0815 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6063 | Engross
50% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT - Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0133 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PROHIBITION OF UNFAIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS - Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the fut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5709 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5084 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0527 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and excepts in connection with a right to pass with carriages, to be acquired ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
[Hearing: May 27]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0909 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1012 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMINENT DOMAIN - Requires all entities delegated eminent domain powers under this section to adopt a plan and approval prior to exercising such power for a public purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0537 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE PROTECTED SPACES ACT - Limits the ability for any federal immigration authority to investigate, detain, apprehend or arrest any individuals for potential violations of federal immigration laws without a judicial wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0956 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL - Establishes a bureau of public protection within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0807 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0519 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1072 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES - Makes several amendments to provide for an online nomination paper portal for election nomination papers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0582 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- COST - Provides that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capaci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0806 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT - Provides that compensation comparability studies of senior management, documents discussed at an open meeting, annual contracting reports, list of current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1015 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Clarifies the definitions of unfair claims practices pertaining to insurers with regard to appraisals and total losses. It also corrects a citation regarding salvage and reconstructed titles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0524 | Intro
25% | ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0951 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY COMMISSION - Establishes the Rhode Island state crime laboratory within the department of attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0302 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT ACT - Prohibits noncompete agreements except for noncompete agreements between a seller and buyer of a business; creates civil action for an employer for the violation of an agreement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0742 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- PUBLIC RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1014 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND DECREES - Amends calculations of interest in civil actions a rate determined by average accepted auction price for last auction of 52 week U.S. treasury bills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0620 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- REGULATION OF SALES - Prohibits the holding of multiple drivers licenses or identification cards and would change the term "re-constructed salvage" to "rebuilt salvage" for purposes of the Rhode Island salvage law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0984 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEMP THC-INFUSED BEVERAGES ACT - Authorizes the sale of THC-infused beverages to be regulated by the DBR division of commercial licensing. It also establishes licensing and an endorsement process for wholesale and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0901 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0985 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
