Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0589
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0590
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the chair and vice chair of the committee.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0591
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/26/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Engrossed
5/1/25
Passed
5/6/25
RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET RIVER BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet River Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet River Bridge.”
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0592
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0593
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Prohibits public utilities, serving greater 100,000 customers from recovering through rates any direct or indirect cost associated with, amongst other costs, advertising, marketing, communications.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0594
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Passed
3/13/25
Senate Resolution Adopting The Rules Of The Senate For Years 2025-2026
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0595
Introduced
3/3/25
Passed
3/4/25
Senate Resolution Congratulating The Matunuck Oyster Bar On Becoming One Of Usa Today's 2025 Restaurants Of The Year And On Being Awarded Wine Spectator’s Two-glass Best Of Award Of Excellence
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0596
Introduced
3/4/25
Passed
3/4/25
Senate Resolution Expressing Deepest Condolences On The Passing Of Dr. Joseph J. Box
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0597
Introduced
3/4/25
Passed
3/4/25
Senate Resolution Recognizing March 8, 2025, As "international Women’s Day", And The Month Of March As "women's History Month", In The State Of Rhode Island
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0598
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DRIVER NATIONAL CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK - Provides a criminal background check procedure for for-hire intrastate passenger transportation services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0599
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION - Increases the public utilities reserve fund cap and the cap on expenses relating to the public utilities commission and the division of public utilities and carriers representing the state before federal agencies.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0600
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
INSURANCE -- VOLUNTARY RESTRUCTURING OF SOLVENT INSURERS - Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0601
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0602
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COUNCIL - Eliminates one of two (2) conflicting versions of the science and technology advisory council authorizing statute, clarifying the structure of the council.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0603
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES - Provides standards for developing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information.