Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0679
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/12/25
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- FORESTRY AND FOREST PARITY ACT - Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where prohibited.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0680
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
Refer
6/6/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSENT TO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CARE - Requires that an individual's caregiver be present when healthcare decisions are discussed with the hospice team. It would also prevent a denial of home hospice care because of age or income.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0681
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Amends powers/duties of the office of the health insurance commissioner to increase total cost of care for services reimbursed under contracts after risk adjustment that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers percentage increase.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0682
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY - Requires hospitals to have a notary on staff all hours of the day and week.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0683
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE - Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements to allow non-physician healthcare providers to enter into such agreements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0684
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
INSURANCE -- INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE -- PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS - Prohibits a policy of individual health insurance coverage from requiring prior authorization for prescriptions of generic medication.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0685
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Adds new sections that set forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by state board of pharmacy. The cessation therapies to be covered by all health insurance carriers on or after 1/1/26.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0686
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests for conditions for which there is a medical benefit to the early detection and treatment of the disorder.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0687
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0688
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION - Makes a technical amendment to correctly reference a section of general law that allows for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Rhode Island organ transplant fund.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0689
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMBRYO SAFETY AND STORAGE ACT - Create the “Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2025.” Also requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0690
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services and mandates annual reporting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0691
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires individual and group health insurance policies that provide pregnancy-related benefits to cover medically necessary expenses for diagnosis and treatment of infertility and standard fertility-preservation services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0692
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0693
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.