Rhode Island State Senator

Brian Thompson 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0448

Introduced
2/26/25  
Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0461

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler, prescription device, or prescription equipment to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0464

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Requires every college in RI to train staff members in the student residential department, including RAs, to administer of opioid antagonists with protection from liability and prosecution.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0475

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0482

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals".
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0483

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense a one-time refill, for up to one hundred days under certain specified conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0484

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0485

Introduced
2/26/25  
Limits prior authorization requirements for rehabilitative and habilitative services. Also prohibits prior authorization for the first twelve (12) visits of a new episode of care and for ninety (90) days following a chronic pain diagnosis.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0488

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes that Medicaid eligibility in RI can only be determined using state-controlled data, prohibit private entity data in eligibility decisions, and ensure terminations are made by human employees rather than automated systems.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0502

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Specifies that low and moderate income housing exists when a city or town has adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring that all housing developments include at least fifty percent (50%) low or moderate income housing units.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0504

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires cities and towns to permit attached single-family dwellings in any residential zoning districts and each such dwelling would be entitled to its own parcel thorough subdivision regardless lot size or base zone standards.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0505

Introduced
2/26/25  
Permit but not mandate, a municipality to allow certain requirements as exceptions to statewide treatment of ADUs to max of 800 sq. ft., owner, family member and caretaker occupation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0513

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
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 Senate Bill S0515

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
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.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0466

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities.