Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5675
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5676
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits residential rent increases to ten percent (10%) plus the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) annually.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5677
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Adds a provision that allows a tenant to pay the last month's rent or any other prepaid rent. It also increases the amount that a security deposit can be requested from one to two (2) months of rent.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5678
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5679
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5680
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- BENEFITS - Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5681
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS -- MERIT SYSTEM - Allows for waiver from testing for temporary or emergency positions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5682
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5683
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises from 15% to 20% and of that, requires a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and a minimum of 10% be awarded to women owned businesses.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5684
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Refer
5/30/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5685
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Allows casino workers to receive overtime pay for working Sundays and Holidays.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5686
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
5/2/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL - Requires municipalities to maintain and update a list of CRMC designated rights-of-way to tidal areas in their municipality.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5687
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/4/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT - Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5688
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Provides an 8% tax rate for those properties that are encumbered by a deed restriction for low-income housing set at 80% or 60% of adjusted median income established by HUD.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5689
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING - Defines multi-family housing project as over 60 units in municipality with less than 35k residents, also provides for pre-approval conference with local board for review of plan.