| RI | S0068 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 5]
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0057 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- SIDEWALKS - Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 4]
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0265 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Amends the law on nursing home minimum staffing requirements in order that any penalty incurred during calendar years 2022, 2023, and 2024 would be abated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
[Hearing: Mar 6]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0563 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0401 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY OF MOTOR VEHICLE NON-EXHAUST PARTICLE EMISSIONS - Requires the department of transportation, in consultation with the department of environmental management also to conduct an environmental impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0417 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX - Reduces the cigarette tax imposed by 75% for any modified risk tobacco product as defined in § 21 U.S.C. 387 k as a tobacco product sold/distributed to reduce the harm/risk of tobacco-related di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0582 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- COST - Provides that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capaci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0399 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE - Requires the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative to reducing carbon emiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0395 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Provides that any school teaching sexual education to students shall provide the sexual education curriculum to every parent or guardian of a student, and the parent or legal guardian shall consent to the teaching of such se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0566 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0469 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- "THE RHODE ISLAND INFORMED CONSENT PROTECTION ACT" - Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0434 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand eight hundred pounds (8,800 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0416 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Phases out the local meals and beverage tax by January 1, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0441 | Intro
25% | HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY - Repeals the act authorizing toll facilities on state roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0562 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0564 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DCYF FAMILY FIRST PREVENTION SERVICES ACT COMPLIANCE AND IMPACT REPORT - Requires DCYF to submit a one-time, detailed report on the effectiveness of EBPs in keeping children out of foster care, providing valuable data ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0543 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX - Defines a vape shop and exempt it from the prohibition of selling electronic nicotine-delivery system products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0556 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AGGRESSIVE DRIVING - Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0380 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Requires the public utilities commission (PUC) to produce a report by January 1, 2026 and each January 1 thereafter, on the ability for the current electric grid to handle the electrifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0404 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD - Requires the PUC to make public notification of any changes in eligibility or production of energy, and would direct the commission to promulgate rules and regulations to allow and facilita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0571 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Amends the section of law relative to violations for driving after denial, revocation or suspension of a license and expands the list of offenses for which an unlicensed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0438 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a full property tax exemption for a veteran’s real property used as the veteran's primary residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0402 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT - Makes several amendments relative to the affordable clean energy security act establishing the act's priority over chapter 6.2 of title 42 (2021 act on climate).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0472 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2025. Also restores access to telemedicine for all Rhode Island residents and allows t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0493 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Allows a landlord that did not obtain a lead certificate pursuant to the lead mitigation laws of chapter 128.1 of title 42 due to the fact that the state lacks the adequate resources to conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0546 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILD ADVOCATE OFFICE - Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0426 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0503 | Intro
25% | TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Create a process to establish a low- or moderate-income housing that exceeds sixty (60) units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0393 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- FAILING SCHOOL CHOICE ACT - Permits students at failing schools to enroll in any public school and also established the Rhode Island education revitalization fund to provide funding to the school choice program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0585 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- E-VERIFY COMPLIANCE - Establishes the E-Verify compliance program which would require all non-governmental employers within the state with 3 or more employees to apply to participate in the federal E-Verify program and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S0561 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0396 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND GUARDIANS IN PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION ACT - Enables parents to review public school learning materials/object if the parent decides that the material is harmful. Also a parent may withdraw their student from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0388 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| RI | S0547 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS’ AND CHAUFFEURS’ LICENSES - Allows school bus drivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut who have a valid CDL license in good standing be exempt from the licensing requirements in Rhode Island to transport scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0400 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Repeals the 2021 Act on Climate which established a statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate in its entirety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0397 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0500 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- WATER SUPPLY - Provides that water utility companies be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance, operation and delivery of water pumping stations to individual parcels of land and schools with no pumping...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| RI | S0567 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0558 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0408 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Increases the membership of the energy facility siting board from 3 to 5 members and would revise the process of energy facility siting to mandate inclusion/participation of the host commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| RI | S0280 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0372 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Condolences To The Murphy Family On The Passing Of The Honorable John M. Murphy
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0368 | Pass | Senate Resolution Welcoming Scouting America, Narragansett Council, To The Rhode Island State House And Joyfully Celebrating Scouting Month In February
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0371 | Pass | Senate Resolution Commemorating The 181st Anniversary Of Dominican Republic Independence On February 27, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Senate read and passed |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | S0308 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution Of The State -- Referendum On Line Item Veto (this Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Would Provide The Governor With A Line Item Ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0277 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT - Provides equal Medicare for infants born-alive as a result of abortion procedure/natural delivery with violations subject to criminal penalties for medical personnel/loss of license/civil action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0306 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
