Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0544
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Increases the penalty for anyone found guilty of reckless driving while eluding police to a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment and subject to a loss of license from 1 to 2 years and a possible forfeiture of their motor vehicle.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0545
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION - Provides for tiered and reduced penalties for offenses of larceny, and shoplifting. Further provides that offenses of shoplifting or larceny would not be misdemeanors, repeals habitual offender provisions and other fraudulent offenses.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0546
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CHILD ADVOCATE OFFICE - Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0547
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Allows school bus drivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut who have a valid CDL license in good standing be exempt from the licensing requirements in Rhode Island to transport school children.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0548
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RETAIL LICENSES -- ADULT SEX VENUES - Authorizes municipalities to license facilities being used as adult sex venues. The department of health would regulate the health safety standards.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0549
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT - Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training. The operator of the premises shall maintain records of the completed training.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0550
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase penalties for malicious injury to or killing of animals.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0551
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows seizure and rehoming of animals prior to criminal charges being heard.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0552
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- DISARMING A PEACE OFFICER - Makes it a felony for any person to remove or attempt to remove any firearm or other weapon or any communication device from any peace officer or investigator of the department of attorney general.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0553
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Tenants with disabilities may request to keep an emotional support animals.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0554
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT - Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0555
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Distinguishes, in two separate subsections, a first offense for reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor, and a second or subsequent offense for reckless driving, which is a felony.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0556
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AGGRESSIVE DRIVING - Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0557
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime on a military installation located in the State of Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0558
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.