| RI | H5358 | Pass | 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] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5464 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - Repeals the exemption granted to pari-mutuel facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement and provides for a one time appropriate of $1,000,000 to inform patrons of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5768 | Veto | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - DMV to provide credit for portions of unused voluntarily cancelled vehicle registrations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| RI | H5769 | Veto | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Provides that when a registrant voluntarily cancels the registrant's motor vehicle registration, that person receives a credit for the time remaining on the original registration to be applied to a futu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| RI | H5218 | Pass | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5619 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5841 | Pass | 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] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5557 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AND REGULATION OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS - Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5797 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds a definition for "co-living housing" to the zoning ordinance provisions of the general laws and would include such housing as a special provision to be included in a zoning ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5017 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RIGHT TO CONSUMER ACCESS TO POWERED WHEELCHAIR REPAIRS - Requires manufacturers of assisting technology devices to make available to independent repair providers/the owner of the device, any document...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5184 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5158 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSE PROCEDURE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS - Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5235 | Pass | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY - Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5348 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-26
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H6255 | Pass | Joint Resolution Creating A Special Joint Legislative Commission To Study The Return Of Central Falls Schools To Local Governance (authorizes The City Of Central Falls, Via Home Rule Charter Or City Ordinance, To Create A School Board With All Powers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5357 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
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 | H6157 | Pass | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LICENSING - Creates a new commercial fishing license for invasive green crabs for Rhode Island residents for twenty-five dollars ($25) annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5420 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6378 | Intro
Sine Die | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Provides for the sealing of eviction records under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | H5558 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD - Requires all applicants who seek to register as a contractor to produce a legible copy of a valid government issued identification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5961 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION - Updates the statutory terminology by replacing the phrase "institutions of higher learning" with that of "educational institutions", and would redefine child daycare centers as educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Signed by Governor |
| 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 | H5833 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows providers of services under this section to visit the houses of individuals with special needs or sensory-related disorders or differences in ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6415 | Pass | House Resolution Extending Its Deepest Gratitude To Rhode Island's Community Newspapers For Their Tireless Efforts As Our Local Watchdogs And Sources Of Information
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H6416 | Pass | House Resolution Congratulating Frank J. Karpinski On His Retirement After Thirty-one Years Of Honorable Service To The State Of Rhode Island, To The State’s Active And Retired Public Servants, And To The Office Of The General Treasurer
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H6417 | Pass | House Resolution Joyously Celebrating And Honoring The 240th Bristol Fourth Of July Celebration
[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 | H6414 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming June 12th Of 2025, To Be "cox Impact Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
House read and passed |
| RI | H5110 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. Disposition facilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5182 | Engross
Sine Die | PROPERTY -- MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY - Provides that the cost of maintaining and repairing or restoring an easement or right-of-way shall be shared by each owner of a benefited property and their costs shall be determined by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H5263 | Engross
Sine Die | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Amends the heading of § 11-47-60.1 to include the words "Dillon's Law."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5838 | Engross
Sine Die | EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Would provide additional procedural safeguards for English as a second language learners and English language learners during the IEP process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H6404 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing And Thanking Andrew Schiff On The Occasion Of His Retirement As Chief Executive Officer Of The Rhode Island Community Food Bank
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-10
House read and passed |
| RI | H6397 | Intro
Sine Die | SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows the Honorable Thomas J. Paolino to join Mariah Marie Paolino and Conner Joseph Gerlach in marriage on or about June 13, 2025, within the Town of Lincoln, Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | H5710 | Engross
Sine Die | ELECTIONS -- PRIMARIES FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND FOR PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE - Would amend certain signature requirements and deadlines regarding primaries for election of delegates to national conventions for presidential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6033 | Engross
Sine Die | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-02
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | H6348 | Intro
Sine Die | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center located in the city of Pawtucket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-28
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | H6318 | Intro
Sine Die | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires every school bus, including buses used exclusively for to transport students receiving special education, to be equipped with a live digital video school bus violation detection mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6366 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing May 27, 2025, As "als Awareness Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H6367 | Pass | House Resolution Commemorating May Of 2025, As "brain Cancer And Tumor Awareness Month" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
House read and passed |
| RI | H5196 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5197 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- THE RHODE ISLAND WORKS PROGRAM - Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5281 | Intro
Sine Die | HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the fed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5323 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Sojourner House In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 To Sojourner House To Support Its Permanent Housing Development Program That Provides Safe, Secure Housing To...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6128 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6358 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing And Congratulating The Members And Coach Of The Wheeler School Team On Their 1st Place Victory At The 42nd Rhode Island Academic Decathlon
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
House read and passed |
| RI | H5393 | Intro
Sine Die | HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
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 |
