| RI | H5248 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless an identified problem exists or fraud or misrepresentation is suspected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5427 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5619 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5635 | Enroll
75% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSING OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS - Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5796 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds an additional purpose to the standard provisions list that a zoning ordinance is required to address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H5803 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Provides for the establishment and operation of an electronic permitting platform for all state and local permitting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H5795 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
House passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5804 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Amends the composition of the building code standards committee and would make several technical amendments relative to the building code office and would establish a state building code office within the of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
House passed Sub B as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H6038 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H6321 | Enroll
75% | Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Hopkinton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Hopkinton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5023 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5098 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H5157 | Engross
50% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT - Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5155 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS - Provides that architects and other authorized disaster response workers, in the course of performing their duties, be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5165 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5422 | Engross
50% | 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 | H5726 | Engross
50% | LIBRARIES -- THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT - Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5580 | Enroll
75% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING - Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5634 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DEFENDING AFFORDABLE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS ACT - Prohibits any health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, manufacturer or other third-party payor from discriminating against any 340B entity participating in a drug disco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H6244 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5163 | 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] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5299 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5622 | Engross
50% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5802 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND LAND USE ACT - Provides amendments to enable the development of state-owned vacant, abandoned or underutilized land for housing and the process therefore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H5855 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H6392 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5188 | 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] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| 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 | H5866 | Engross
50% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a sixty-day (60) supply may be dispensed at any one time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H6057 | Engross
50% | THE EXETER -- WEST GREENWICH SCHOOL DISTRICT - Amends chapter 80 of the public laws of 1965 with respect to the composition of the regional district school building committee, apportionment of construction and operating costs and amendments to the ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H6088 | Engross
50% | 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 | H6165 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE POLICE - Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5110 | Engross
50% | 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 | H6353 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRIMARY CARE PRESERVATION ACT - Authorizes a physician practice to charge a practice support contribution; provided that, the amount does not exceed $120 per year, per patient, enrolled in a healthcare insurance plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H6369 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH CARE ADVOCATE - Allows the health care advocate to petition the superior court for the appointment of a receiver as deemed necessary or appropriate by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H6368 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Amends unfair discrimination statutes to encompass more protected categories and protects against additional forms of discrimination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6373 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Requires the executive office of health and human services to increase Medicaid payment rates for primary care services furnished by primary care providers to be commensurate with Medicare rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6166 | Intro
25% | 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 | H6033 | Engross
50% | 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 | H6365 | Intro
25% | 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 | H5799 | Engross
50% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND - Provides that minor subdivisions would include oversized lot subdivisions under certain circumstances and relative to zoning ordinances, permit a modification to allow "neighborhood character-based modificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | H6039 | Engross
50% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5079 | Intro
25% | 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 | H5317 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5467 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR FUEL TAX - Extends allocation of motor fuel tax to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Fund through 2025. Changes the allocation to 30% total proceeds, including 30% from the one cent per gallon environmental prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6290 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- WEALTH TAX - Imposes a wealth tax on Rhode Island individuals and entities at a rate of one percent (1%) of worldwide wealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-21
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5527 | Intro
25% | 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 | H5996 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2025 - Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6254 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Authorizes office of health and human services (EOHHS) to establish coverage for obesity treatments, including medication. Office of health and human services would seek a 1115(a) waiver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6277 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STAY INVESTED IN RHODE ISLAND WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIPS - Clarifies Wavemaker program eligibility to include all full-time Rhode Island medical practitioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
