Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0349
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS - Allows for a qualified abandonment of public town roads which grants a public easement over said road allowing it to be converted to walking, biking, and hiking trails and access to parks, nature preserves and other recreational facilities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0350
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Defines a quorum of the building code standards committee be a majority of the current board members and amends the state building code to require that sections provide that dwelling units from one to four (4) units use the international residential code.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0351
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/22/25
Passed
5/9/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0352
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS - Requires superior court clerk to automatically seal cases/individual counts of a criminal complaint/indictment that were dismissed, upon request of the defendant and serve it upon bureau of criminal identification, police department and counsel of record.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0353
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION - Extends time for a party to apply for stay of arbitration to180 days; invalidates any provision that penalizes a party for seeking legal representation; requires arbitrator to provide notice of default to a party for failure to pay fees.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0354
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/2/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Enrolled
6/3/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT SECRETARIES, COURT REPORTERS, AND ELECTRONIC COURT REPORTERS - Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0355
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0356
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/23/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
FIDUCIARIES -- APPLICATION OF LAWS TO TRUSTS - Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her, or its individual capacity.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0357
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, to have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the systems for indigent defendants.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0358
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides a civil cause of action for individuals injured by artificial intelligence.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0359
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
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 Senate Bill S0360
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Assess Education Modules For Divorcing Parents (creates A Nine (9) Member Commission To The Study And Assess The Most Effective Module For Divorcing Parents, And Would Report Back By January 27, 2026, And Expire On March 27, 2026.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0361
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0362
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Exempts foster care individuals from drivers education fee at community college of Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0363
Introduced
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- MILITARY CHILD ACT - Defines "military-connected student", "advance enrollment" and "open enrollment" to give them flexibility in choosing a school district.