Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0559

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0560

Introduced
2/26/25  
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Amends §§ 14-1-3 and 14-5-8, relating to possession of marijuana and proceedings in family court ensuring that children under 17 years of age in possession of less than 2 oz of marijuana are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0561

Introduced
2/26/25  
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0562

Introduced
2/26/25  
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0563

Introduced
2/26/25  
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0564

Introduced
2/26/25  
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DCYF FAMILY FIRST PREVENTION SERVICES ACT COMPLIANCE AND IMPACT REPORT - Requires DCYF to submit a one-time, detailed report on the effectiveness of EBPs in keeping children out of foster care, providing valuable data on the programs' impact on high-risk families, reunification outcomes, and program availability.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0565

Introduced
2/26/25  
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- INDICTMENTS, INFORMATIONS AND COMPLAINTS - Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0566

Introduced
2/26/25  
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION - Provides for a cause of action against an individual or entity that prohibits the possession of firearms on real property, except residences, by an individual that is authorized and licensed to carry a firearm.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0567

Introduced
2/26/25  
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0568

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ENFORCEMENT - Requires all school buses be equipped with video monitoring system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0569

Introduced
2/26/25  
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0570

Introduced
2/26/25  
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPEED RESTRICTIONS -- SCHOOL BUS SPEED LIMIT - Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten miles per hour (10mph) less than the posted speed limit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0571

Introduced
2/26/25  
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- VIOLATIONS - Amends the section of law relative to violations for driving after denial, revocation or suspension of a license and expands the list of offenses for which an unlicensed motorist would be in violation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0572

Introduced
2/26/25  
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTION -- SMALL CLAIMS AND CONSUMER CLAIMS - Simplifies the assessment of filing fees required to appeal from small claims and consumer matters adjudicated by the district court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0573

Introduced
2/26/25  
PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS - Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.

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