Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5255
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Includes the definition of "primary care services" and requires that all biennial reports shall include a review and recommendation of rates for primary care services on and after September 1, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5256
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- EQUAL PAY FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - Provides for equal pay for healthcare providers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5257
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5258
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES -- COMMON LAW MARRIAGE - Abolishes common law marriages entered into in this state on or after January 1, 2026, while recognizing the validity of any common law marriage entered into or adjudicated to exist before January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5259
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Prohibits the suspension of any person’s operators’ or chauffeurs’ license or their vehicle registration unless upon conviction of driving offenses.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5260
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program pursuant to § 14-1-6 to children in the juvenile justice system and children who attain reunification prior to their eighteenth (18th) birthday, however, the reunification is not successful.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5261
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- DIVORCE AND SEPARATION - Permits, effective 7/1/25, the family court to make appropriate orders of support and education of any child who has attained 18 years of age, but not 21, who is domiciled in the home of a parent, and is principally dependent upon said parent for support.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5262
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION - Adds school superintendents, central office officials, school principals, and all other school employees, to the definition of a “public official” for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5263
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Amends the heading of § 11-47-60.1 to include the words "Dillon's Law."
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5264
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually unless the landlord is granted an exemption by the secretary of housing and provides tenants with a civil action to recover damages, including an award of attorneys' fees/punitive damages, for violations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5265
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
PROPERTY -- ESTATES IN REAL PROPERTY - Defines the apportionment of financial responsibilities for expenses and improvements to the real property of the life estate between the life tenant and remainder man.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5266
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5267
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS - Requires a housing code enforcement officer to give a copy of any housing code violation notice to all tenants of the building affected by a housing code violation along with any hearing dates scheduled for the violation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5268
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOME-FIT DWELLING UNITS - Creates the home-fit dwelling units act to apply to all new construction of covered dwelling units to incorporate design features that provide safe and convenient use of to the greatest extent feasible, regardless of age or physical ability.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5269
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/21/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Allows the waiver of interest on overdue taxes for commercial properties.