| RI | H5322 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT - Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5548 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- VOLUNTARY RESTRUCTURING OF SOLVENT INSURERS - Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A 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 | H5797 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | H6231 | Enroll
75% | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Allows for the issuance of a Class B liquor license for the property located at 1441 Mineral Spring Avenue in the town of North Providence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-21
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5025 | Enroll
75% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5078 | Engross
50% | HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that licensed independent clinical social workers be able to enroll and bill Medicaid directly for covered services provided to adults with Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
House read and passed |
| RI | H5104 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- CASUALTY INSURANCE RATING - Forbids a motor vehicle liability insurance carrier from considering the zip code of where an insured lives for purposes of calculating their policy premium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H5187 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee," and clarifies that the board may defer a pending unfair labor practice charge to allow for the grievance and arbitration process to move forward pursuant to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H5364 | Engross
50% | PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES - Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) |
| RI | H5372 | Enroll
75% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed in concurrence |
| RI | H5421 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires all school buses be equipped with video monitoring system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence |
| RI | H5506 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion, as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding politic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5594 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE - Requires the board of regents to adopt support and intervention strategies consistent with Comprehensive Education Strategy and SALT in one district at a time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H6053 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 75% to 80% of the fair marke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H6089 | Engross
50% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases the imprisonment penalty for animal fighting from 2 to 5 yrs for a subsequent conviction under § 4-1-9 and would also require mandatory community service
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-20
Senate passed Sub A in concurrence |
| RI | H5070 | Pass | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Effective without Governor's signature |
| RI | H5227 | Enroll
75% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5266 | Enroll
75% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5668 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5586 | Enroll
75% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5585 | Enroll
75% | PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5575 | Engross
50% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- LONG TERM CONTRACTING STANDARDS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY - Allows for the procurement of nuclear power.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5946 | Engross
50% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5811 | Enroll
75% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- AN ACT ADOPTING THE FEDERAL SECURE AND FAIR ENFORCEMENT FOR MORTGAGE LICENSING ACT OF 2009 - Prohibits an individual who is licensed as both a Rhode Island real estate agent and mortgage loan originator to be compensated for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H6242 | Enroll
75% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-18
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5121 | Engross
50% | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS - Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5293 | Enroll
75% | HEALTH AND SAFETY - Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-17
Transmitted to Governor |
| RI | H5549 | Engross
50% | INSURANCE -- RHODE ISLAND PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION - Provides a framework through which the department of business regulation can seek grants to fund a home hardening program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-16
House passed Sub A |
| RI | H6187 | Pass | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H6304 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Ensures public access to lead service lines to determine the existence of lead within the water connection. This act also ensures mitigation measures and replacement lines are consistent with the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H6407 | Intro
25% | ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5273 | Pass | FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 - Requires all lifeguards, and park and forest rangers, who work on a full time basis at any public beach or facility to be trained in administering opioid antagonists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H5524 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law related to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-04
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5603 | Engross
50% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Allows emergency preliminary certificates for teaching to be issued for up to a total of five (5) school years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | H6318 | Intro
25% | 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 | H5447 | Engross
50% | COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-23
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | H5528 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Requires the school district of a child in the custody of the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to pay all the educational cost of the child if the child is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6190 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $118,422 For Rhode Island Parent Information Network, Inc. (ripin) (this Resolution Authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $118,422 For Ripin To Continue The Operation Of The Ripin Dual Ombudsman.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-22
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5759 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5283 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5744 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- BILINGUAL, DUAL LANGUAGE AND WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS INVESTMENT ACT - Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-15
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6305 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows a clinical laboratory, that is incorporated in the State of Rhode Island, to analyze blood samples, from children under the age of six (6) years, for blood lead levels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5760 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Raises the earned-income tax credit from twenty percent (20%) to thirty percent (30%) for the tax years 2026 and beyond.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5761 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification for all taxable pension and/or annuity income includible in federal adjusted gross income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H5899 | Engross
50% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AGGRESSIVE DRIVING - Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H5602 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Eliminates any requirement that any person who is employed as a physical education teacher not by required to have a certification in adaptive physical education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
To House Education Committee |
| RI | H6048 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- VIDEO LOTTERY GAMES, TABLE GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING - Effective 7/1/2026, the state lottery division of gaming stops renewing any existing sports wagering vendor contract. Prior to the expiration of any existing contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6139 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP - Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the Community College of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
To House Finance Committee |
| RI | H6294 | Pass | House Resolution Proclaiming The Month Of May Of 2025 To Be “myositis Awareness Month In The State Of Rhode Island”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-01
House read and passed |
