Rhode Island State Senator

John Burke Authored & Sponsored Legislation

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0507

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0508

Introduced
2/26/25  
Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular and certified mail.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0509

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows condominium unit owners to participate in association meetings remotely through the use of digital platforms such as zoom, provided that such remote meetings are authorized by condominium declarations or bylaws.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0513

Introduced
2/26/25  
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  
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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0516

Introduced
2/26/25  
Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the person committed a criminal offense.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0520

Introduced
2/26/25  
Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0524

Introduced
2/26/25  
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.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0514

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Requires the state retirement board to publish online all archived video or audio recordings and all future recordings of meetings of the board.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0521

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.