Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5510
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant within sixty (60) days after the close of their fiscal year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5511
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Allows the commissioners of the water and sewer commission for the town of Jamestown to limit its public water system's obligation to supply water only within designated and described area as opposed to the entire land area of the town.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5512
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/15/25
Refer
5/23/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5513
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
5/2/25
Report Pass
5/13/25
Enrolled
5/29/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES - Implements a thirty (30) day waiting period following the issuance of a learners permit and the waiting period must expire before the person is permitted to take the road test in order to obtain a full license.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5514
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/24/25
Refer
5/2/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5515
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Joint Resolution To Approve And Publish And Submit To The Electors A Proposition Of Amendment To The Constitution -- Of Suffrage (would Propose To The Voters Of The State A Constitutional Amendment Regarding Eligibility To Vote And To Be A Candidate.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5516
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Requires all write-in votes, regardless of qualification, to be reported and published by the state board of elections, on its website.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5517
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/23/25
ELECTION -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS - Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 and provide for existing polling places that exceed the maximum number of voters, not be required to be changed until the next decennial redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5518
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/24/25
Refer
5/2/25
ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Requires the local board of canvassers to publish early voting dates, hours, and location, at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation and to publish the same on the municipality's website for the duration of in-person early voting period.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5519
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
ELECTIONS -- AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE - Repeals authorizing Rhode Island to join an interstate compact, which would allow Presidents and Vice Presidents to be elected by a national popular vote rather than the electoral college.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5520
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
ELECTIONS -- ELECTION OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE ELECTORS - Changes the manner by which presidential electoral college electors are elected and create a system of grouping of municipalities of equal populations, one of each of Rhode Island's electoral votes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5521
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- REDISTRICTING COMMISSION - Creates a redistricting commission to act every ten (10) years to adopt a redistricting plan for all general assembly and congressional districts. It also provides for a possible right of appeal of the plan, to the state supreme court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5522
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES - Requires the rule adopting agency to send a copy of the certified rule to all members of the general assembly, within twenty (20) days of filing a final rule.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5523
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5524
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS - Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law related to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers.