Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0904
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Establishes the commercial sex buyer’s accountability program which consists of an instructional program on prostitution and human trafficking schemes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0905
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT - Prohibits dental insurers from refusing to honor directions to pay from insured, modifying benefits to be paid. Requires providers to accept payment by virtual credit card as unfair claims practices.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0906
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE - Allows for a tenant to withhold payment of rent, and deposit the rent accruing into an escrow bearing account, upon the issuance of a second notice of violation by an enforcing officer for any state or local minimum housing code enforcement agency.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0907
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Redefines "political party" and defines and distinguishes between "major parties" and "minor parties" based on the total number of votes a party's candidate received in the previous election.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0908
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Removes the mandatory certification for an individual 16 years or older who was found delinquent for having committed 2 offenses after the age of 16 which would render the person subject to an indictment if the person was an adult.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0909
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data and preferred license plate information public.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0910
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Mandates that the clerk of the district court, upon request of the defendant, automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of the rules of criminal procedure for district court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0911
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Enrolled
5/8/25
Passed
5/9/25
SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows Nunzio Pontillo to join Andrew Peter Carson and Christos Nelson Anastasopoulos in marriage on or about May 10, 2025, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0912
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
6/4/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
EDUCATION -- REGIONAL VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS -- ESTABLISHMENT OF CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Requires all certified independent or district charter schools upon application for a renewal of said charter or an application for a new charter school to provide a union neutrality clause in the charter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0913
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Enrolled
6/12/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD - Requires all applicants who seek to register as a contractor to produce a legible copy of a valid government issued identification.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0914
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Removes the fee for registration and plate transfer for a Distinguished Service Cross registration plate.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0915
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Eliminates the registration and service charge fees for National Guard plates.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0916
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE FIRE MARSHAL - Creates a voluntary program through which registrants of electric and hybrid motor vehicles can request stickers to affix to enclosures housing such vehicles to promote first responders' safety in responding to electrical fires.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0917
Introduced
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Repeals § 3-7-19 which prohibits retail liquor licenses within two hundred feet (200') of schools and religious institutions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0918
Introduced
3/27/25
Passed
4/1/25
Senate Resolution Extending The Reporting Date Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study The Governance Structure Of Rhode Island's Public Education System (extends The Reporting And Expiration Dates Of The Special Legislative Commission To Study The Governance Structure Of Rhode Island’s Public Education System, From March 1, 2025 To April 1, 2026, And Said Commission Expires On June 1, 2026.)