Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0844
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/11/25
Report Pass
5/15/25
Enrolled
5/22/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Friends of Little Compton Wellness Center, Inc.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0845
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC. FUND - Provides for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Meals on Wheels Inc. Fund commencing with tax year 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0846
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - Prohibits healthcare providers and health plans from denying the payment of a medical bill, solely because the bill may have arisen from a third-party claim.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0847
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- COMPASSIONATE ACCESS TO MEDICAL CANNABIS ACT - Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0848
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Imposes a hospital licensing fee for fiscal year 2026 against net patient-services revenue of every non-government owned hospital for the hospital’s first fiscal year ending on or after January 1, 2024.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0849
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS - Establishes a reimbursement system for a municipalities cost of training public safety personnel when they are hired by a different municipality or public safety agency within Rhode Island within 3 years of receiving the public safety training.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0850
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- FARMLAND PRESERVATION ACT - Prohibits any city, town, quasi-municipal corporation or public corporation from assessing any existing agricultural operation or agricultural land for the extension of any water utilities past the property and from imposing any connection fee.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0851
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT - Allows the owner of a residential unit to rent it for tourist or transient use. Prohibits a municipality any means to deny the owner from offering and renting the unit for tourist or transient use.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0852
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires that all agencies' final rules, promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act, be approved by general assembly action, but in no case later than December 31 of the year it is promulgated before it can become effective.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0853
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits any city or town from requiring an applicant for license to carry concealed firearm to provide a reason for their request other than those outlined in § 11-47-1.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0854
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Allows that public records stored in a computer system, upon request, be provided at no charge.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0855
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PEACE OFFICER MAXIMUM WORKDAY AND OVERTIME COMPENSATION - Establishes a maximum hourly workday for all peace officers as defined in § 12-7-21 and a violation rate of pay of double time and a half.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0856
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0857
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Provides all employees of retail establishments with 15 or more employees engaged in work during Sundays or holidays shall receive from their employer no less than time and a half and shall be guaranteed at least a minimum of four (4) hours employment.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0858
Introduced
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Defines employees as individuals employed by a municipality or state covered by a collective bargaining agreement or employment contract, and would redefine an "employer" to those who employ fifteen (15) or more employees.