Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0634
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- THE PAUL W. CROWLEY RHODE ISLAND STUDENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVE - Enables the Providence School Board to authorize local school-based councils to enhance communication between the board and the individual schools.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0635
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires immediate notification to the person in charge of the educational program when a child has a cardiac emergency and the head of the educational program must notify the department of education within 24 hours.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0636
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PUPIL TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES - Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0637
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires the department of elementary and secondary education and DOH to adopt policies, rules and regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identified as having epilepsy/seizure disorder.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0638
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Develops standards of civics education in grades K-12 teaching history in the state of Rhode Island, representative government, the rights and duties of actively engaged citizenship, principals of democracy, and media literacy.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0639
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0640
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION - Updates the statutory terminology by replacing the phrase "institutions of higher learning" with that of "educational institutions" and redefines child daycare centers as educational institutions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0641
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state property.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0642
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- UNIFORM SEPTAGE DISPOSAL FEE - Establishes a uniform wastewater disposal fee in the amount of fifteen cents ($.15) per every ten thousand gallons of wastewater effluent.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0643
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
FISH AND WILDLIFE -- SHELLFISH - Creates a shellfish hatchery program established by the department of environmental management to foster sustainable development and resiliency of the state's shellfish industry.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0644
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Strikes the words "which is naturally occurring" with regard to any promulgated rules and regulations of the department of environmental management (DEM) relating to the remediation of arsenic.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0645
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Exempts certain products that have PFAS if deemed safe by FDA.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0646
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Restricts application of pesticides and rodenticides at schools and child care centers and requires schools to provide copies of notice to parents and guardians.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0647
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0648
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.