| RI | H5130 | Pass | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Crime gun ballistic evidence to be submitted to NIBIN.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| 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 | H5674 | Pass | PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5871 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides that public historical vital records maintained by the state archives shall not be amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6071 | Pass | PUBLIC FINANCE -- RHODE ISLAND BABY BOND TRUST - This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5679 | Pass | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer, at the start of employment, furnish to their employees a written notice containing employment information relative to wages, rates of pay, allowances, benefits, deductions from pay, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5796 | Pass | 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] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5803 | Pass | 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] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5801 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Amends several definitions relating to low- or moderate-income housing as well as the procedure for the approval of low- or moderate-income housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5248 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-30
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 | H5229 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING - Authorizes the establishment of a Rhode Island housing champion designation program and makes qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5633 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Allows a pharmacist to dispense a one-time refill for certain medications for continuation of therapy to patients under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5800 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds "providing for residential development in all or some of the areas encompassing commercial districts" as a purpose a zoning ordinance must address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5804 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5798 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address.
[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 | H6118 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-27
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 | H5595 | Pass | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires that every institution of higher education provide training in the administration of opioid antagonists to every staff member on the institution's campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6347 | Pass | TOWNS AND CITIES-GENERAL POWERS -- NARRAGANSETT LANDING FEES - Increases the landing fee for the town of Narragansett from fifty cents ($.50) to one dollar ($1.00).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5384 | Pass | ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
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 | H5684 | Pass | 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] | 2025-06-24
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 | H6036 | Pass | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLINICIAN WELLNESS AND SUPPORT ACT - Recognizes the program run by the Rhode Island Medical Society or comparable program for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and podiatrists, to address burnout, subst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
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 | H5432 | Engross
Sine Die | INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - This act would prohibit health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in- network mental health or substance use disorder services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5802 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | H5947 | Engross
Sine Die | TOWNS AND CITIES -- AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS AND INSTALLATION OF SYSTEMS - Amends the audit compliance requirements for municipalities' contributions to pension plans under the budget of accounts and installation of systems chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
House read and passed |
| 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 | H6308 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-03
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6381 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing And Congratulating The Members Of The South Kingstown High School's Rebel Theater Group For Their Outstanding Performance At The 3rd Annual Ocean State Star Awards
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
House read and passed |
| RI | H6375 | Pass | House Resolution Recognizing May 30, 2025, As "world Ms Day" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
House read and passed |
| 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 | 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 | H5536 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $200,000 To Be Used For Incentives For Fruits And Vegetables Sold At Participating Bonus Bucks Outlets In Rhode Island (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $200,000 For Incentives For The Farm Fresh ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6015 | Intro
Sine Die | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $250,000 To The Refugee Dream Center (rdc), $250,000 To Higher Ground International, And $250,000 To Dorcas International Institute Of Rhode Island (authorizes $250,000 To Refugee Dream Center (rdc), $250,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
