Rhode Island State Senator

Brian Thompson Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0347

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Allows foreign trained physicians limited license to practice in Rhode Island under specific conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0352

Introduced
2/21/25  
Requires superior court clerk to automatically seal cases/individual counts of a criminal complaint/indictment that were dismissed, upon request of the defendant and serve it upon bureau of criminal identification, police department and counsel of record.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0357

Introduced
2/21/25  
Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, to have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the systems for indigent defendants.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0367

Introduced
2/24/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF ROBERT EDWARD KENAHAN ON FEBRUARY 8TH, 2025
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0386

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows RI to opt out of the provisions of DIDMCA exempting out of state lenders from interest rate limits which apply to RI lenders. Prevents evasion of statutory interest rate limits and lending rules for loans made in RI.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0389

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides that no new network charter school application shall be granted.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0392

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires that one third of all Rhode Island teachers, each year for the next 3 years, be trained in the basic emergency and response skills curriculum ("BEARS"), specifically in hand-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation/Heimlich maneuver/bleeding control.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0412

Introduced
2/26/25  
JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE MEDICAID SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION WAIVER REQUESTS AND RENEWALS -- RHODE ISLAND MEDICAID REFORM ACT OF 2008 (Joint resolution to approve an amendment to the Medicaid section 1115 demonstration waiver requests and renewals.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0413

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases the LLC organization fee to $500. Exempts the LLC from filing an annual tax return, paying the minimum tax and obtaining a letter of good standing from the division of taxation in order to dissolve.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0438

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides a full property tax exemption for a veteran’s real property used as the veteran's primary residence.