Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0769
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT - Mandates state and electric distribution companies develop proposals and encourage off shore wind power development and give priority in those projects to providing employment and business opportunities to workers from disadvantaged communities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0770
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that stores offering food product discounts must provide the same discounts to in store customers that are offered to customers using electronic digital coupons.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0771
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0772
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0773
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Provides that the school year for all public schools, including traditional public and public charter schools, independent charter schools, and mayoral academies, would start on the same date of each calendar year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0774
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
Expands council on elementary and secondary education and board of education and makes teacher of year and student advisory chair voting members on each.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0775
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfer all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0776
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the federal adjusted gross income threshold for modification for taxable social security income. Amends references to federal adjusted gross income as pertains to modification of taxable retirement income from certain pension plans or annuities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0777
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Requires that present and former employees, active and retired members, and beneficiaries receiving any retirement, disability or death allowance receive a $2,000 increase per year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0778
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Provides a tax upon the endowment of a private institution of higher education equal to two percent (2%) upon each dollar over $1,000,000,000.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0779
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
TAXATION -- WEALTH TAX - Imposes a wealth tax on Rhode Island individuals and entities at a rate of one percent (1%) of worldwide wealth.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0780
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Adds administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator to the state retirement system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0781
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - Redefines “farm” by reducing the amount of revenue from farm products required to be sold from ten thousand ($10,000) to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0782
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Removes the definition of "totally and permanently disabled" from the general law affording college tuition paid by the state to the spouse and children of active members of the police force who are killed or disabled during duty.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0783
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLICITATION BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS - Increases the threshold limit for charitable organizations with an annual gross income of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more.