| RI | S0176 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ACT - Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0235 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0636 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES - Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0774 | Intro
25% | Expands council on elementary and secondary education and board of education and makes teacher of year and student advisory chair voting members on each.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0887 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES - Protects against discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs and activities, even if there is a change in the federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0238 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT - Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0039 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax scalp hair prosthesis or wigs that are necessary due to hair loss from a medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0035 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0023 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For Potential Changes In Legislation/oversight Of The Act On Climate (creates A 5 Member Commission To Provide Recommendations For Legislation Changes An...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0094 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales and use tax, the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0098 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides tax credits or the equivalent assessment dollars to veterans, gold star parents, visually impaired persons and the elderly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0111 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- RHODE ISLAND NEW QUALIFIED JOBS INCENTIVE ACT 2015 - This act would sunset/discontinue the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0129 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICE ACT - Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0209 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- FAIR CHANCE IN HOUSING ACT - Limits the use of certain criminal records and credit history reports in denying housing to prospective applicants, and provides for fines for failure to comply. This act further requires notices of denials to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0212 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORDS AND TENANT ACT -- JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS - Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0220 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTHCARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT - Amends Rhode Island’s existing healthcare services funding plan act by adding an account relating to a new psychiatry resource network to fund Rhode Island’s present PediP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0254 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Would provide children up to age three (3) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearly redet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0300 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FOREST CONSERVATION ACT -- COMPOSITION OF STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, AND QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATIONS - Removes appointees of state boards, commissions, public authorities and quasi-public who have a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0263 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0271 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0462 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HARM REDUCTION CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PILOT PROGRAM - Removes the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers and creates a permanent pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0477 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0536 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Modifies the real estate sales disclosure form to include the disclosure of “blower door diagnostic air leakage testing” and advises that air leakage testing is recommended prior to pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0607 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Makes a series of amendments to several statutes regarding businesses and professions to provide clarity or align with new federal requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0738 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Grants tenants that are the victim of various forms of abuse, including, but not limited to, sexual and domestic abuse and stalking, the right to terminate a lease agreement early without penalty or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0701 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in the state when those services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0712 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- NEW SHOREHAM - Provides that municipal water supply entities, including New Shoreham and Jamestown, be required to provide water service to only its designated service areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0868 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To 401 Tech Bridge To Study And Explore Seagliders In Rhode Island (this Resolution Would Make An Appropriation Of $1,000,000 To 401 Tech Bridge To Study And Explore Seagliders.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0892 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- CORE STATE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS SERVICES SYSTEMS-988 - Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system, to be administered by the director of the department of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0942 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Makes certain technical amendments /clarifications to the statutes relating to the assessment of real property and the timing and process to appeals thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0963 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides an 8% tax rate for those properties that are encumbered by a deed restriction for low-income housing set at 80% or 60% of adjusted median income established by HUD.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0980 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Increases the landing fee for the town of New Shoreham from fifty cents ($.50) to one dollar and seventy-five cents ($1.75).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-21
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0032 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to 27% of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0969 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Changes utility company billing practices so that when a gas electric utility changes their customer billing, they are required to file a copy of the new bill with the PUC for approval, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0972 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Amends the composition of school bus districts within the state to provide transportation to students in grades kindergarten through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0974 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- CONTRIBUTIONS - 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 amount and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0241 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee |
| RI | S0050 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN CHILDREN RELIEF FUND - Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insuran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0100 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0550 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS - Increases penalties for animal abuse under this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0478 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Establishes the scope of a certified professional midwife’s authority relating to prescribing medication to patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0460 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES -- THE POWERS AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES - Expands the DCYF powers by overseeing and administer comprehensive behavioral health services for children with serious emotional distu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0479 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance plans to cover services provided by licensed certified professional midwives. Insurers must report utilization and cost data annually. Certain limited benefit policies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0551 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows seizure and rehoming of animals prior to criminal charges being heard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0632 | Pass | 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 (m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0658 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Amends the Rhode Island works program to allow lawful permanent residents to receive benefits without a waiting period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0686 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0713 | Intro
25% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides for warming center and cooling center alerts to trigger certain procedures municipalities shall follow during extreme heat or cold to help at-risk individuals with shelter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0797 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing encampments, including the right to clean and sanitary conditions and impose penalties for violations of the rights set forth in this chapter in the amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0966 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Support For The Lgbtqia+ Community
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Senate read and passed |
