Rhode Island State Representative

Cherie Cruz Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5629

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amends the current law on health insurance coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment and requires coverage for any medically necessary ovulation-enhancing drugs and medical services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5650

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits family court from detaining or committing any youth, 12 years or younger, to training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault, or an attempt to commit such offenses there is no other reasonable placement.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5664

Introduced
2/26/25  
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  
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 H5678

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5714

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5718

Introduced
2/26/25  
Expands the DCYF powers by overseeing and administer comprehensive behavioral health services for children with serious emotional disturbances and children with developmental or functional disabilities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5732

Introduced
2/26/25  
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION – GREEN AMENDMENT (Proposes a constitutional amendment to Article 1 providing for a right to clean air, soil, climate, and the environment’s natural values.)

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5647

Introduced
2/26/25  
Permits those individuals convicted of multiple felonies and misdemeanors to have their records expunged and provide criteria for the court to consider in determining whether the person is of good moral character.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5648

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires sentencing court to consider whether defendant is parent of child, or caregiver of elderly, disabled or terminally ill person whose well-being would be adversely affected by the person's incarceration and if so, shall impose a non-jail sentence.