| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0072 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION FEES - Disabled veteran license plate may be transferred to veterans' spouse or issued to veteran or veterans spouse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0074 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0130 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LITTER CONTROL AND RECYCLING - Changes the fine for any person convicted of a first violation of this chapter from $85 to $200, and increases the period of time that the violator may be ordered to pick up litter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0236 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0343 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0326 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND CLIMATE SUPERFUND ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act cost recovery program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0316 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Requires a seventy-five percent (75%) supermajority vote by the board of directors to establish a quorum and to approve any action taken by the commerce corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0327 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution – Green Amendment (proposes A Constitutional Amendment To Article 1 Providing For A Right To Clean Air, Soil, Climate, And The Environ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0321 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ATHLETIC TRAINERS - Requires certified athletic trainers to be trained in the administration of epinephrine auto-injectors (epi-pens) and would require such professionals to be equipped with the medication while performi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0340 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes the sales tax on the purchase of animals from a breeder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0361 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0320 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAMS CONCUSSION ACT - Requires all school districts to designate a certified athletic trainer at each high school within its district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0357 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, to have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0318 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- LONG TERM CONTRACTING STANDARDS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY - Allows for the procurement of nuclear power.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0342 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $32,594,799 To The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $32,594,799 To The Ri Public Transit Authority To Continue Services, Hire And Train More Bus Operators, A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0332 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ACT - Exempts individual retirement accounts as a countable resource for public assistance. This act also prohibits the state as a creditor against an ABLE account in the event of death of a beneficiary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0334 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0324 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0319 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- SCHOOL AND YOUTH PROGRAMS CONCUSSION ACT - Replaces the existing chapter on this subject by requiring school districts to organize concussion oversight teams, develop removal-from-play, return-to-play, and return-to-learn protocols, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0255 | Intro
25% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - Establishes Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rates set by the general assembly as the rate floor for Medicaid managed care by home care, home nursing care and h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0295 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS - Prohibits state and municipal officials or body from entering into and renewing any agreements that will be used to detain individuals for federal civil immigration ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0238 | Intro
25% | LIBRARIES -- THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT - Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0298 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Increases penalties for a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0262 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0244 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the Rhode Island earned-income credit to twenty percent (20%) on January 1, 2026. Such credit would not exceed the amount of state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0258 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state alloc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0311 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0246 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Requires oil spill responsible fee from 5 cents to 10 cents. Funds to support climate change initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0263 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0279 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT - Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0060 | Intro
25% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT - Establishes a digital electronics right to repair, which allows for digital electronic equipment and parts that are sold in this state on or after January 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0059 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines "crime gun" and requires law enforcement to submit crime gun or 2 fired cartridge cases or shell casings seized to state crime laboratory or the BATF for testing and tracing, also would require 2 test-fired cart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0052 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE -- PROMPT PROCESSING OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - Prohibits certain claim practices of health insurers and medical providers. The act would further require fulfillment of medical record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
| RI | S0174 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $500,000 To Establish A Statewide Main Street Coordinating Program (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $500,000 For The Formal Establishment Of “main Street Rhode Island”.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0195 | Intro
25% | 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. A disposition facility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0181 | Intro
25% | WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - This act would require that a super majority of three-fifths (3/5) of the duly appointed council is required to override a recommendation by the CRMC staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0187 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0184 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Expands the positions that a person in the state retirement system could have at a state college or university post-retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0207 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0180 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0185 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0214 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - Requires that the license plates of a vehicle be confiscated by a police officer if the owner was arrested for driving while their license was suspended, revoked or cancelled for refu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0166 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the administration of all forms of influenza immunizations to individuals of any age pursuant to a valid prescription or prescriber approved proto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0167 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE POLICIES - Provides that individuals enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B guaranteed right to enroll in standardized plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0103 | Intro
25% | INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates all insurance contracts, plans or policies provide insurance coverage for the expense of diagnosing and treating infertility, for women between the ages of 25 and 42 years including pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0125 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at $16 per hour, 2027 at $17 per hour, 2028 at $18 per hour, 2029 at $19 per hour and for 2030 at $20 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0087 | Intro
25% | FISH AND WILDLIFE -- COMMERCIAL FISHERIES - Creates commercial dock space for businesses subject to being reviewed by the DEM. Would also include commercial fishers to be eligible for a grant program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
