| RI | S0103 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all insurance contracts, plans or policies provide insurance coverage for the expense of diagnosing and treating infertility, for women between the ages of 25 and 42 years including pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0705 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0027 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0151 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0110 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT ACT - Establishes a tax credit against income tax based on eligible expenses incurred for care and support of an eligible family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0185 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0261 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax behind-the-meter batteries interconnected with a solar photovoltaic system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0246 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Requires oil spill responsible fee from 5 cents to 10 cents. Funds to support climate change initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0336 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0386 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Allows RI to opt out of the provisions of DIDMCA exempting out of state lenders from interest rate limits which apply to RI lenders. Prevents evasion of statutory interest rate l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0621 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- MENTAL HEALTH LAW - Provides that advanced practice registered nurses have the same immunity from liability as physicians and surgeons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0677 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY HOME -- VISITING ACT - Changes annual reporting requirements for the state’s family home-visiting program and also impacts appropriation and spending of funds in order to access maximum federal funding f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0676 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Creates the Rhode Island Student Loan repayment program which would allow eligible individuals who have unpaid student loans, provided said individuals meet specified criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0693 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| RI | S1046 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Allows communities to increase their local share of hotel tax collection by an additional two percent (2%).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S1004 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- EARLY AND PERIODIC SCREENING, DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT - Requires the executive office of health and human services to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a state plan amendment for reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0670 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S1079 | Pass | Senate Resolution Supporting "period Poverty Awareness Week" On May 12-18, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1075 | Pass | Senate Resolution Welcoming Eliza Reid, Renowned Writer And Former First Lady Of Iceland, To The Rhode Island State House
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0114 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DEFENDING AFFORDABLE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS ACT - Prohibits any health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other third-party payor from discriminating against any 340B entity participating in a drug discount program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0263 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0389 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- ESTABLISHMENT OF CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Provides that no new network charter school application shall be granted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0740 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SUICIDE PREVENTION -- VOLUNTARY FIREARM RESTRICTIONS ACT - Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0145 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCE AND EXECUTION - Requires the courts to consider the parental status of the defendant at the time of sentencing and allows the defendant to present a family impact statement, including testimony, videos and documents rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0259 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that a student's enrollment in Medicaid would be included in calculating and determining the student success factor for use in the foundation education-aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0279 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0578 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROTECTIONS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ACT - Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs shall include the name of the dispensing health care practice instead of the name of the dispenser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0629 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNIT PRICING - Provides that an electronic shelving label by itself would not satisfy the disclosure and display requirements for unit pricing by way of the attachment of a stamp, tag or label to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0794 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0975 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides medical assistance coverage for medical services provided qualifying eligible recipients for community based care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0897 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance providers to provide insurance coverage for pharmacists’ services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0767 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- GENETIC INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT - Establishes the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which would require a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, as defined, to provide a consumer with certain inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0184 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Expands the positions that a person in the state retirement system could have at a state college or university post-retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0268 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2026, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0276 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES -- PROMOTION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER AND SMART GROWTH - Amends several sections of chapter 24 of title 45, entitled "zoning ordinances," also known as the "Rhode Island zoning enabling act of 1991," with the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0249 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT - Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 2.89% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0480 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drug, device or therapeutic equivalent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0684 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE -- PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS - Prohibits a policy of individual health insurance coverage from requiring prior authorization for prescriptions of generic medication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0690 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0691 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires individual and group health insurance policies that provide pregnancy-related benefits to cover medically necessary expenses for diagnosis and treatment of infertility and standard fert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0954 | Intro
25% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- LICENSES GENERALLY - Establishes and funds the SafeRIde program, which provides transportation, free of charge, to persons suspected of having a blood alcohol concentration that prohibits legal operation of a vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0021 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | S0020 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Directs the commissioner of postsecondary education to prepare a strategic plan for public higher education which is aligned with the goals of the board of education's strategic plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0774 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-07
To House Education Committee |
| RI | S0971 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION ACT - Establishes a prekindergarten seat finder to support families in accessing high quality early childhood education programs for three (3) and four (4) year old children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0997 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BEVERAGE CONTAINERS RECYCLING ACT - Establishes the Beverage Container Recycling Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S1032 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming The Week Of May 5th Through May 12th Of Each Year To Be "composting Awareness Week In The State Of Rhode Island"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
Senate read and passed |
| 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] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Finance 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] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
