Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5660
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND SECURITY INTERESTS - Allows on and after September 1, 2025, an owner of motor vehicle(s) to transfer ownership and registration of said vehicle on their death, by a certificate of title designation and requires DMV to amend title forms, to include transfer-on-death language.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5661
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT - Expands the statute of limitations with respect to any wrongful act resulting in the death of a child in utero or within six (6) months after the birth of the child, to ten (10) years after the death of the child.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5662
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- FRAUD AND FALSE DEALING - Established crime of real estate title fraud and creates private cause of action.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5663
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINALS -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- INTERSTATE DETAINERS - Requires state law enforcement agencies to honor all detainer request from DHS and ICE.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5664
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY COMMISSION - Increases the membership of the state crime laboratory commission from five (5) to nine (9). The overseer and co-executive secretaries of the commission have been changed to the deans of URI's colleges of pharmacy and engineering.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5665
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS - Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing the interaction with encampments and include the right to access clean and sanitary conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5666
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights."
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5667
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
EDUCATION -- MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON CAMPUS - Requires that all campus police officers be equipped with ballistic body armor.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5668
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5669
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5670
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Expands the definition of peace officers to include juvenile program workers and shift coordinators at the department of youth, children and families.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5671
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMPUTER CRIME - Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharrassment.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5672
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- ADOPTION OF CHILDREN - Establishes the rights of adoptive/foster children or those in guardianship, to have post-separation visitation with their siblings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5673
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- POLICE OFFICERS -- COMMISSION ON STANDARDS AND TRAINING - Establishes an equivalent training certification program at the municipal police academy.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5674
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity.