| RI | S0066 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE - Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0125 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at sixteen dollars ($16) per hour, 2027 at seventeen dollars ($17) per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0278 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/17/2025) |
| RI | S0483 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes pharmacists to dispense a one-time refill, for up to one hundred days under certain specified conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S0694 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Details each of those limited emergency circumstances where a registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurses, may safely administer sedation, such as critical life-saving or emergency situations where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0679 | Intro
25% | AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | S0713 | Engross
50% | 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 resources including, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0709 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0732 | Engross
50% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- SUPERIOR COURT - Permits retired superior court magistrates to be assigned to perform service pursuant to §§ 8-2-11.1, 8-2-39, 8-2-39.1 or 8-2-39.2 and be reemployed by the superior court without any forfeitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0786 | Engross
50% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Prohibits prior authorization or a step therapy protocol for the prescription of a nonpreferred medication on their drug formulary used to assess or treat an enrollee's bipolar disorder, schiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0876 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Permits those individuals convicted of multiple felonies and misdemeanors to have their records expunged and provide criteria for the court to consider in determining whether the person is of go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | S0865 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC FINANCE -- STATE INVESTMENT COMMISSION - Requires the state investment commission to create a capital access initiative to expand potential investment opportunities for the state’s pension fund and engage qualified but traditionally underrep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
Senate read and passed |
| 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] | 2025-06-12
Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S0809 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Grants Rhode Island's family court jurisdiction to make findings for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
Proposed Substitute |
| RI | S0122 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Establishes a program operated by the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation called the "housing land bank" to create affordable housing in RI with the authority to buy, recei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0191 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0336 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0323 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Provides that the commissioner of elementary and secondary education directs all local education agencies to select one of the identified high-quality curricula and materials for science and technology no later than June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S0354 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S0414 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Permits paid members on the state labor relations board to continue to receive their retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0520 | Engross
50% | ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0387 | Enroll
75% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | S0614 | Engross
50% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- TAXATION OF BEVERAGES - Provides technical and other corrections to various general laws relating to taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0601 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0744 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. It also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0722 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0721 | Engross
50% | SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION -- CAPITAL CENTER COMMISSION - Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0829 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- BENEFITS - Provides temporary caregivers benefits to any eligible bone marrow transplant donor or living organ donor and would provide definitions for both
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0845 | Engross
50% | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC. FUND - Provides for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Meals on Wheels Inc. Fund commencing with tax year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0867 | Engross
50% | PROBATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- UNCLAIMED INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY - Permits the division of unclaimed property within the office of the general treasurer to accept miscellaneous intangible property belonging to Rhode Island residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| 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] | 2025-06-10
Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2025) |
| RI | S0942 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S1042 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP - Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the Community College of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1048 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1116 | Engross
50% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Adopts a new tax classification system for the city of Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S1132 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-10
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0343 | Pass | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires all lifeguards, and park rangers, to be trained in administering opioid antagonists, and would require all public beaches to keep available a minimum of four doses of opi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S0462 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S0618 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0711 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING AND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND ACT - Restructures the Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increases its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and realloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2025) |
| RI | S0296 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | S0269 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
Committee recommends passage in concurrence |
| RI | S0325 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE - Amends the definition of “hobby breeder” to limit the sale or offering for sale to no more than two (2) litters of dogs or cats, or a combination thereof, in a three hundred and sixty-five (365) day p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | S0784 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $750,000 To Waterfire Providence (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of §750,000 To Waterfire Providence.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
Committee recommends passage |
| RI | S0892 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- 988 SUICIDE AND CRISIS LIFELINE CALL CENTER FUNDING AND OPERATIONAL INDEPENDENCE - Establishes a restricted receipt account, known as the “988 Call Center Fund,” to be held and administered by the state to support...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | S0345 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT - Allows for the enactment of the dietitian licensure compact permitting a licensed dietitian from another state to become licensed within the state, and also permitting a dietitian licensed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0550 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0495 | Engross
50% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING - Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | S0612 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Ensures that the department of housing is able to access the full calendar year worth of housing choice voucher data for the annual report required by this section and amends the content of the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | S0611 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Clarifies roles and regulatory authority for the administration of the program involving the repurposing of vacant schools for housing, extends the deadline for conducting feasibility studies and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
Senate passed Sub A |
