Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5915
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Exempts recovery claims for damages due to a town's neglect in maintaining highways or bridges from the provisions of chapter 31 of title 9 on governmental tort liability.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5916
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Increases the notification time about rent increases and termination of tenancy for month-to-month tenants.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5917
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits the mandatory rental registry to properties constructed prior to 1978, and further push out the effective date of registration to September 1, 2025, with the penalty clause becoming effective as of October 1, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5918
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Requires landlords of residential properties built before 1978 to register lead hazard mitigation information with the department of health and the information would be private and only accessible by specific entities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5919
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
PROPERTY -- TRESPASS AND VANDALISM -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT ACT - Defines squatter as a person occupying a dwelling unit who is not authorized by the property owner, landlord or tenant to occupy the unit and provides remedies for property owner including police assistance to remove a squatter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5920
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICE ACT - Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5921
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE - Allows for a tenant to withhold payment of rent, and deposit the rent accruing into an escrow bearing account, upon the issuance of a second notice of violation by an enforcing officer for any state or local minimum housing code enforcement agency.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5922
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Prohibits a peace officer, as defined in § 12-7-21, from employing threats, physical harm, deprivation, deception, coercion, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics during the custodial interrogation of a juvenile.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5923
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
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 House Bill H5924
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
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 House Bill H5925
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5926
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Creates a cause of action for the intentional or negligent injury or death of a pet.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5927
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIVE CONFINEMENT OVERSIGHT ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplinary and administrative confinement at the department of corrections.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5928
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE BODY CAMERAS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ACT -- THE WILLIE WASHINGTON, JR. ACT - Establishes The Body Cameras for Correctional Facilities Act which mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervision rolls to wear body cameras while on duty in their assigned facility.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island House Bill H5929
Introduced
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
5/2/25
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- REGULATION OF SALES - Prohibits the holding of multiple drivers licenses or identification cards and would change the term "re-constructed salvage" to "rebuilt salvage" for purposes of the Rhode Island salvage law.