Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0784
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $750,000 To Waterfire Providence (authorizes The Appropriation Of The Sum Of ยง750,000 To Waterfire Providence.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0785
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
EDUCATION -- BILINGUAL, DUAL LANGUAGE AND WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS INVESTMENT ACT - Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for students and teachers, with eligibility requirements and donations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0786
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Prohibits prior authorization or a step therapy protocol for the prescription of a nonpreferred medication on their drug formulary used to assess or treat an enrollee's bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or schizotypal.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0787
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RIGHTS OF NURSING HOME PATIENTS - Supports the role of independent family council and makes the waiting list transparent by requiring nursing facilities with more than thirty percent (30%) self-pay residents to admit applicants on a first-come-first-served basis for non-private rooms.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0788
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
INSURANCE -- AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS - Removes the age restriction for benefits coverage/requires, after 1/1/26, for policies issued or renewed include coverage for reimbursement for provider services at a rate equal to, or greater than, Medicaid establishments of EOHHS.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0789
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0790
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LICENSING OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS - Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for behavioral analysts.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0791
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0792
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND KRATOM ACT - Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0793
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases individual, group, and Medicaid insurance rates of reimbursement for ambulance and wheelchair van services to be equal to reimbursement rates provided by Medicare for the same medical services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0794
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within the community.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0795
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a ninety-day (90) supply may be dispensed at any one time.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0796
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES - Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0797
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing encampments, including the right to clean and sanitary conditions and impose penalties for violations of the rights set forth in this chapter in the amount of $500 per violation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0798
Introduced
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- MULTIFAMILY HOUSING ACT - Requires single-family residential zoning in municipalities with populations of over forty-thousand (40,000) to allow middle housing and mandates that those municipalities adopt zoning regulations for middle housing.