Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0184
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Expands the positions that a person in the state retirement system could have at a state college or university post-retirement.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0185
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0186
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows real property owner a one-time non-refundable tax credit for the actual costs of connecting a single family or multi-family dwelling to a municipal sewer system credited to the owner's personal or corporate income tax.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0187
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
TAXATION -- ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0188
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT - This act would repeal the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0189
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE - Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0190
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will be 50% by the core instruction per-pupil amount.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0191
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0192
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0193
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Amends the provisions for insurance coverage of mental health, mental illness, and substance use disorders.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0194
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS - Amends the licensing statute to allow a graduate of a board-approved physical therapy school to be reinstated upon a failed examination upon the filing and registering for a second or third examination.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0195
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
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. A disposition facility would be used for either cremation or natural organic reduction.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0196
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/21/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0197
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0198
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
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.