Rhode Island State Senator

John Burke Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

RI

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  
Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.
RI

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.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0490

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires landlords of residential properties built before 1978 to register lead hazard mitigation information with the department of health and the information would be private and only accessible by specific entities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0493

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows a landlord that did not obtain a lead certificate pursuant to the lead mitigation laws of chapter 128.1 of title 42 due to the fact that the state lacks the adequate resources to conduct inspections.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0495

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/8/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including discretionary state infrastructure funds, as available.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0499

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0501

Introduced
2/26/25  
Authorizes municipalities to make an emergency declaration under limited circumstances to allow for the construction and use of SAVE Units on a temporary basis which have specialized requirements and exemptions from the state fire and building codes.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0502

Introduced
2/26/25  
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.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0494

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows unpaid fines for violations of municipal ordinances to be recorded as alien in the land records, where the violating real property is located. The lien would be added to amount of real estate taxes owed on the property at issue.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0496

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.