Rhode Island State Representative

David Morales 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 8)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5538

Introduced
2/18/25  
Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the division of statewide planning, to be utilized for redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5578

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits public utilities from raising the cost for access to the internet for senior citizens.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5599

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes a corrections education and vocational planning group (CEVPG) to consider opportunities for career and educational programming.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5601

Introduced
2/26/25  
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 House Bill H5611

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/15/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Enrolled
6/10/25  
Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5630

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions.
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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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5649

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/22/25  
Engrossed
4/29/25  
Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the traffic tribunal.
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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 H5674

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
6/21/25  
Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity.
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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 H5679

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Requires employer, at the start of employment, furnish to their employees a written notice containing employment information relative to wages, rates of pay, allowances, benefits, deductions from pay, and identifying information relative to the employer.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5680

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5683

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises from 15% to 20% and of that, requires a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and a minimum of 10% be awarded to women owned businesses.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5684

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Refer
5/30/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.