Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0019
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
EDUCATION -- INNOVATION SCHOOLS - Allows for the establishment of innovation schools for the purpose of improving school performance and student achievement through increased autonomy and flexibility.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0020
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION - Directs the commissioner of postsecondary education to prepare a strategic plan for public higher education which is aligned with the goals of the board of education's strategic plan.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0021
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
EDUCATION -- CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS - Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0022
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION -- STUDENT SUCCESS ACT - Reduces the time, from three (3) years to one year, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0023
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Passed
5/15/25
Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Provide Recommendations For Potential Changes In Legislation/oversight Of The Act On Climate (creates A 5 Member Commission To Provide Recommendations For Legislation Changes And/or Oversight For The Act On Climate, And Would Report Back By May 1, 2026, And Would Expire On June 1, 2026.)
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0024
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HIGH HEAT WASTE FACILITY ACT - Provides for a prohibition on the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0025
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil penalties for violations.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0026
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire District.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0027
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY TAX RELIEF - Increases the income range up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and tax credit up to eight hundred fifty dollars ($850), for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0028
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
3/20/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION - Exempts from property taxation, the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0029
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- NATIONAL GUARD - Raises the amount of life insurance the state provides at no charge to Rhode Island National Guard members called up for federal duty to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0030
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
EDUCATION -- POSTSECONDARY TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR SHORTAGE TEACHING FIELDS - Creates a postsecondary tuition assistance for shortage teaching fields.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0031
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0032
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATE AID - Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to 27% of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality annually.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0033
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) of social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.