Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0484
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACT - Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0485
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- REGULATE HEALTH INSURANCE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS FOR REHABILITATIVE AND HABILITATIVE SERVICES ACT - Limits prior authorization requirements for rehabilitative and habilitative services. Also prohibits prior authorization for the first twelve (12) visits of a new episode of care and for ninety (90) days following a chronic pain diagnosis.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0486
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Establishes a process whereby large drug manufacturers, may be penalized for prescription drug price increases where there is no, or inadequate, new evidence to support the price increase.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0487
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0488
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION ACT - Establishes that Medicaid eligibility in RI can only be determined using state-controlled data, prohibit private entity data in eligibility decisions, and ensure terminations are made by human employees rather than automated systems.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0489
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- CAPACITY TO HOLD REAL ESTATE - Precludes any legal entity from possessing, controlling or otherwise claiming legal title to real property exceeding an aggregate value of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in single-family dwellings or multi-family dwellings.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0490
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Requires landlords of residential properties built before 1978 to register lead hazard mitigation information with the department of health and the information would be private and only accessible by specific entities.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0491
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION - Substitutes "housing resources commission" with "department of health" for lead hazard mitigation purposes. It also makes it easier for a property owner to release funds put into an escrow account, if needed to make required repairs or improvements.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0492
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Allows municipalities to enact ordinances that would permit municipalities and water suppliers to enter properties to perform lead service line replacements and permit tenants to request and schedule private side lead service line replacements.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0493
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
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 inspections.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0494
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES - Allows unpaid fines for violations of municipal ordinances to be recorded as alien in the land records, where the violating real property is located. The lien would be added to amount of real estate taxes owed on the property at issue.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0495
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/8/25
Engrossed
5/15/25
Refer
5/16/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING - Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including discretionary state infrastructure funds, as available.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0496
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0497
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/22/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Center for Southeast Asians.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0498
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the non-commercial real and tangible personal property of Southside Community Land Trust, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island.