Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0334
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0335
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0336
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0337
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Allows Ukrainian parolees residing in Rhode Island under the federal Uniting for Ukraine program, who have been granted temporary parole, to qualify for in-state tuition at Rhode Island state colleges and universities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0338
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACT OF 2025 - Establishes a fee on companies that sell fossil fuels in Rhode Island and establishes a fund to disburse the collected funds.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0339
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- THUNDERMIST FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM - Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0340
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Imposes the sales tax on the purchase of animals from a breeder.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0341
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a full property tax exemption for a veteran’s real property used as the veteran's primary residence.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0342
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $32,594,799 To The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $32,594,799 To The Ri Public Transit Authority To Continue Services, Hire And Train More Bus Operators, And Implement The State's Act On Climate Goals.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0343
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
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 opioid antagonist.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0344
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
INSURANCE -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Requires EOHHS to develop a budget and seek funding to establish an early childhood mental health hub program to improve access to infant and early childhood mental health services for children under six (6) years and their families.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0345
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT - Allows for the enactment of the dietitian licensure compact permitting a licensed dietitian from another state to become licensed within the state, and also permitting a dietitian licensed by the state to become licensed in another compact state.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0346
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM - Establishes a single-payer health care insurance system, consolidating public and private payments into a more efficient Medicare-for-all style program, funded by progressive taxes, to reduce health care costs.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0347
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - Allows foreign trained physicians limited license to practice in Rhode Island under specific conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0348
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Senate Resolution Urging The Rhode Island Federal Delegation To Demand Reversal Of Actions Harming Critical Health And Safety Programs