| RI | 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 |
| RI | H5427 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | 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 |
| RI | H5726 | Pass | LIBRARIES -- THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT - Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5098 | Pass | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H6122 | Pass | 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] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6038 | Pass | BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6126 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Reforms the composition of the coastal resources management council to seven (7) members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6173 | Pass | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- RHODE ISLAND ANTI-BID-RIGGING ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Anti-Bid-Rigging Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6207 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE STATEWIDE IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS FOR A BEVERAGE CONTAINER REDEMPTION, PACKAGING, AND RECYCLING PLAN - Provides extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper, recycling of beverage containers, and provides general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5023 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health and provides guidance and recommendations to educate health care providers and the citizens of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6093 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Provides a procedure for parking modifications near shoreline rights-of-way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5163 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5299 | Pass | PROPERTY -- LEASED LAND DWELLINGS - Directs RIHousing to work with stakeholders to investigate and determine ways to assist an incorporated homeowners' association to exercise rights to purchase leased land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5698 | Pass | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5723 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT - Requires any state agency that prints more than fifty (50) copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use state-owned o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6161 | Pass | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6252 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- RHODE ISLAND INFRASTRUCTURE BANK - Authorizes the Rhode Island infrastructure bank to establish a fund to provide financial assistance to local government units for resiliency and stormwater abatement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5121 | Pass | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5188 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5484 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5598 | Pass | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5686 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Requires municipalities to maintain and update a list of CRMC designated rights-of-way to tidal areas in their municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6392 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT - Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5422 | Engross
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL WASTE RECYCLING AND REFUSE DISPOSAL - Amends the certain provisions relative to school waste recycling and refuse disposal and requires reports of waste audits by educational entities and reports of program participation by vendor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H5493 | Engross
Sine Die | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5310 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5719 | Engross
Sine Die | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE SERVICES - Advances the interests of older Rhode Islanders by adding a representative of an aging adult organization and a permanent committee on aging to the state planning council and creates a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5185 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5844 | Pass | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER POLLUTION - Requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6088 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Permits a certified foot care nurse or a certified foot care specialist, to provide certain at-home foot care, including routine foot and nail care including nail clipping.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6372 | Pass | House Resolution Strongly Reproving The United States Coast Guard's Plan To Remove 38 Buoys From Rhode Island Waters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H6412 | Pass | House Resolution Celebrating The National Lighthouse Museum’s Recognition Of The Heroic Efforts Of Ida Lewis With The "past Light Keeper Award"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H5731 | Engross
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Authorizes driver education schools to offer the driver training curriculum in a classroom setting or an instructor-led virtual format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H6191 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $10,000,000 To The Rhode Island Foundation To Support Public Education (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) To The Rhode Island Foundation, To Generate Funds To Supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6166 | Intro
Sine Die | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- CODE OF ETHICS - Creates a new law to address the issue of "sexual harassment" involving those individuals that are actively involved in legislative business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
To House State Government & Elections Committee |
| RI | H6365 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- RETAIL DELIVERY FEE - Imposes a fifty cent delivery fee (tax) per transaction for deliveries in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6346 | Intro
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION ACT OF 2015 - Amends the Identity Theft Protection Act by eliminating current definitions and establishing new definitions. This act also raises the penalty provisions for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5312 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | H5376 | Engross
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate would be divided equally b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | H5079 | Intro
Sine Die | PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6190 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $118,422 For Rhode Island Parent Information Network, Inc. (ripin) (this Resolution Authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $118,422 For Ripin To Continue The Operation Of The Ripin Dual Ombudsman.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5738 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6006 | Intro
Sine Die | CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- 2026 BOND REFERENDA - Submits the state's 2025 capital development program requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling twenty five million dollars ($25,000,000) for approval of the electorate at the gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6020 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $32,594,799 To The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (appropriates The Sum Of $32,594,799 To The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6350 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5526 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THUNDERMIST FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM - Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5527 | Intro
Sine Die | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- CHILDREN'S MOBILE RESPONSE AND STABILIZATION SERVICES ACT - Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5984 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6236 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
