Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5435
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Prohibits state agencies from entering into software contracts that limit the agency's ability to install or run the software on their hardware.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5436
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5437
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- JAILS AND PRISONS - Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and families.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5438
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
5/2/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SEARCH WARRANTS - Dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provide a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good cause.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5439
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
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 House Bill H5440
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the person committed a criminal offense.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5441
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS - Reduces the time for expungements to three (3) years for a single misdemeanor and five (5) years for felonies and multiple misdemeanors.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5442
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/21/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- PUBLIC UTILITIES - Expands meaning of bomb threats and false reports to include any warning or threat of the existence of an explosive device and allows judge to impose conditions of bail to include extreme risk protection orders, no trespass orders and counseling.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5443
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SUICIDE PREVENTION -- VOLUNTARY FIREARM RESTRICTIONS ACT - Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5444
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS - Defines slowing a vehicle for purposes of the “move over law” (§ 31-14-3) to mean twenty miles per hour (20 mph) under the posted speed limit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5445
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION -- EFFECT OF GENERAL LAWS - Directs the office of law revision to identify, on a yearly basis, any decisions or holdings of the United States Supreme Court that would require amendments to any state statutes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5446
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Permits a tenant, at the tenant’s expense, to implement energy conservation measures to any dwelling or dwelling unit such as removable weather-stripping around doors and windows.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5447
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
4/29/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/23/25
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil penalties for violations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5448
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Eliminates the "until June 30, 2025" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5449
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Repeals § 3-7-19 which prohibits retail liquor licenses within two hundred feet (200') of schools and religious institutions.