Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0124
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee", and would clarify that the board has the right to award interest and attorney's fees and aid in enforcement of the board's orders.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0125
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at sixteen dollars ($16) per hour, 2027 at seventeen dollars ($17) per hour.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0126
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/11/25
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 political or religious matters.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0127
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
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 employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0128
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the DOC to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires that those facilities provide in-person contact visits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0129
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICE ACT - Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0130
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0131
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not public.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0132
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- UNIFORM ACT ON PREVENTION OF AND REMEDIES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Requires that all monies received from the payment of fines under the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking be deposited into the into the violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0133
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
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 future.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0134
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
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 possession of up to two ounces (2 oz.) of marijuana.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0135
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS FOR MINORS WITHOUT RESIDENCE ACT - Allows a minor between the ages of 14 - 17 without a permanent residence/in custody of the DCYF to get state identification card without a signature from parent, guardian or foster parent as well as a certified copy of minor's birth certificate at no cost
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0136
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0137
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Defines suitable person, establishes reasons for applying for concealed carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process for denials, provides that records are not public permits hunting with suppressor.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0138
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Increases sentences for carrying a stolen firearm when committing a crime of violence and for possessing a stolen firearm. Requires that a person convicted of these offenses serve a period of time in which they would not be eligible for parole/ probation.