Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0244
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the Rhode Island earned-income credit to twenty percent (20%) on January 1, 2026. Such credit would not exceed the amount of state income tax.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0245
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0246
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Raises the minimum fee per barrel of petroleum products or crude oil from five cents ($0.05) to ten cents ($0.10) per barrel as part of the uniform oil spill response and prevention fee.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0247
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS-EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INFANTS - Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be under the jurisdiction of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS).
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0248
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0249
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- TEACHER'S RETIREMENT - Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 2.89% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employees retirement system.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0250
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates public schools (K-12) have one full-time certified social worker for every 250 students and allocates $2 million in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget for school districts and municipalities to hire additional social workers.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0251
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ADJUDICATION OF TRAFFIC OFFENSES - Prohibits the state, municipalities, or courts from attempting to collect any motor vehicle violation fines or costs, after more than seven (7) years of the fine becoming final.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0252
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Joint Resolution Making An Appropriation Of $2,000,000 To The Elisha Project (this Resolution Would Authorize The Appropriation Of The Sum Of $2,000,000 To The Elisha Project.)
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0253
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM - Establishes a new program where the per pupil funding, calculated annually by RIDE, would be transferred into a newly created educational funding account run by the children's scholarship fund to pay for educational expenses.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0254
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN - Would provide children up to age three (3) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearly redetermination due solely to administrative barriers.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0255
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - Establishes Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rates set by the general assembly as the rate floor for Medicaid managed care by home care, home nursing care and hospice providers licensed by the DOH and continue the EEOHH.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0256
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Mandates additional state education funding for the mental and behavioral health of students equal to 2% of the district’s total expenditures, and require those funds be used to hire staff such as school social workers, and behavioral specialists.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0257
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on or after the new July 1, 2012, cutoff date.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0258
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY -- VICTIMS OF CRIME TRAUMA INFORMED MOBILIZATION ACT - Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state allocating $30,000,000 per year to fund the program and staffing within the department of public safety.