| 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] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 26]
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0367 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Joyously Celebrating The 90th Birthday Of Robert Edward Kenahan On February 8th, 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/25/2025) |
| 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 | S0206 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- JUDICIAL SELECTION - Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 3 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0303 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases fees paid to jurors to fifty dollars ($50.00) per day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0287 | Intro
25% | DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Provides for a residency requirement of at least six (6) months rather than one year for the Rhode Island family court to have jurisdiction over a divorce complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25]
To Senate Judiciary 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 | S0330 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0335 | Intro
25% | TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0356 | Intro
25% | FIDUCIARIES -- APPLICATION OF LAWS TO TRUSTS - Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary 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 | S0352 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Requires superior court clerk to automatically seal cases/individual counts of a criminal complaint/indictment that were dismissed, upon request of the defendant and serve it upon b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary 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 | S0362 | Intro
25% | MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts foster care individuals from drivers education fee at community college of Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0341 | 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] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| RI | S0347 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - Allows internationally trained physicians to practice at healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities and provides a mentorship alternative to the residency requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | 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] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary 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 | 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 | S0353 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Extends time for a party to apply for stay of arbitration to180 days; invalidates any provision that penalizes a party for seeking legal representation; requires arbitrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0063 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Placed on Senate Calendar (02/25/2025) |
| RI | S0286 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0296 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary 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 | S0313 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS - Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs Committee |
| RI | S0269 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0290 | Intro
25% | COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Grants an affirmative defense for certain privileged communications, including communications made by an individual, without malice, regarding an incident of sexual assault, hara...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary 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 | S0302 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT ACT - Prohibits noncompete agreements except for noncompete agreements between a seller and buyer of a business; creates civil action for an employer for the violation of an agreement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0294 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMPUTER CRIME - Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharrassment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0235 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAMS - Requires the school board or committees of cities and towns to establish a safety and behavioral health committee and also lays out the representation requirements committee responsibilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education Committee |
| RI | S0065 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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 | S0133 | Intro
25% | PROPERTY -- PROHIBITION OF UNFAIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS - Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the fut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0134 | Intro
25% | DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- TREATMENT OF JUVENILES FOR CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY - Amends the statute so as to conform to current statutory penalties for possession of marijuana offenses promulgated in the Rhode Island cannabis act allowing for po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0153 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN -- VLOGS - Establishes a statutory framework designed to protect minors who are engaging in the business of vloging on social media and the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0228 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Hilding T. Munson
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0225 | Pass | Senate Resolution Proclaiming February 7th Through The 14th Of 2025, To Be "congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week" In The State Of Rhode Island
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0227 | Pass | Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Rufina Delizo Rice
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| RI | S0226 | Pass | Senate Resolution Extending Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Marie T. Nesselbush
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Senate read and passed |
| 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 | S0204 | Intro
25% | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Permits the court to determine the number of hours a person would have to complete of a batters intervention program and gives the court discretion as to whether that person would be personally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0198 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS - Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0213 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S0211 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Requires that one of the seven (7) directors of the Rhode Island airport corporation be appointed by the governor after the governor gives due consideration to a list of individuals ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary 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 | S0179 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- RIGHTS AND DUTIES TEACHERS GENERALLY -- SEPTEMBER 11 CLASSROOM MOMENT OF SILENCE - Allows teachers in all grades to provide the opportunity for students to observe a brief moment of silence on every September 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
