| 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] | 2025-05-15
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S1079 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Supporting "period Poverty Awareness Week" On May 12-18, 2025, In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
Recommended for Immediate Consideration |
| 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 | S0271 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0359 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0462 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-05-14
To House Health & Human Services 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 | S0238 | 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] | 2025-05-14
To House State Government & Elections 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 | 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 | S0610 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Committee recommends passage of Sub A |
| RI | S0705 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-05-13
Committee recommends passage |
| 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 | S0869 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - Creates the position of dementia services coordinator within the department of health to coordinate the departments approach to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0924 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE MEDICAID REENTRY ACT - Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0945 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- RHODE ISLAND BID RIGGING ACT - Establishes the Rhode Island Bid Rigging Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S1062 | Intro
25% | GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS - Renames the East Bay Bike Path Bridge, located in the Town of Warren, the Cpl. Richard C. Brule Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S1061 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-05-13
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0075 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS -- VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION CHECKS - Waives the fees for vehicle identification number inspections for veterans, including active duty military personnel and members of the Nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee |
| RI | S0435 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts from the sales tax eligible school supplies, costing less than $30.00, purchased within one week prior to the commencement of the academic year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 15]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0625 | Engross
50% | MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME - Adds “space force” to the branches of the military included in various sections of general law regarding the veterans home, veterans cemetery and the power of armed forces officers to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
To House State Government & Elections 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] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 15]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0914 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Removes the fee for registration and plate transfer for a Distinguished Service Cross registration plate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
To House Special Legislation Committee |
| RI | S0923 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $400,000 To The Coastal Resources Management Council (crmc) For Funding Of Uri's Coastal Resources Center (crc) Stormtools, Champ Analysis, And Mycoast (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 15]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 15]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0896 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Requires reimbursement for medical, dental, and behavioral health services provided at community health care centers to equal the lesser of the actual cost, based on Medicaid reports, or 125% of the median rate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
[Hearing: May 15]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S1043 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Adds the property of the Pokanoket Management Group, Trustee of the Pokanoket Tribe Land Trust, to the list of property designated for appropriations in lieu of municipal property tax, would concurrently exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0113 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RESIDENCE OF CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES - Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-08
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| 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 | S0257 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on ...
[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 | S0932 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Repeals a provision of the minimum prepaid special motor vehicle registration plate orders law that was set to expire on December 31, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-07
To House Special Legislation 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 | S0129 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICE ACT - Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Judiciary 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 |
| RI | S0591 | Pass | RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET RIVER BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet River Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet River Bridge.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S0738 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Grants tenants that are the victim of various forms of abuse, including, but not limited to, sexual and domestic abuse and stalking, the right to terminate a lease agreement early without penalty or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0701 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in the state when those services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0695 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLINICIAN WELLNESS AND SUPPORT ACT - Mandates establishment of a support program for nurse practitioners similar to that which is offered for physicians. Additionally, it requires professional licensing and repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0703 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Alters a PA’s continuing education requirements, ability to provide charitable care, and authority to clear students to return to sports after health-concern related removal and protect PA’s fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0892 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0969 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Changes utility company billing practices so that when a gas electric utility changes their customer billing, they are required to file a copy of the new bill with the PUC for approval, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To Senate Commerce 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] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0036 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Amends the Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act to set the regionalization bonus at 2% of the state's share of foundation education aid for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2025,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
