Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0514
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/23/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Requires the state retirement board to publish online all archived video or audio recordings and all future recordings of meetings of the board.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0515
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0516
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the person committed a criminal offense.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0517
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0518
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Creates an 11 member commission to analyze the impact and potential economic benefits of bail reforms on Black Rhode Islanders, and would report back by February 5, 2026, and expire on April 5, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0519
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0520
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0521
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0522
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Requires all write-in votes, regardless of qualification, to be reported and published by the state board of elections, on its website.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0523
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0524
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the division of statewide planning, to be utilized for redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0525
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Requires submission of a domestic violence/sexual assault reporting form when the domestic violence response or investigation involves a verbal argument or dispute.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0526
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0527
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and excepts in connection with a right to pass with carriages, to be acquired by prescription or adverse use.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0528
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RIGHT-OF-WAY - Amends the general law relative to right-of-way of pedestrians to reference the schedule of violations for the adjudication of traffic offenses contained in § 31-41.1-4.