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 S0954

Introduced
4/4/25  
Establishes and funds the SafeRIde program, which provides transportation, free of charge, to persons suspected of having a blood alcohol concentration that prohibits legal operation of a vehicle.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0957

Introduced
4/4/25  
Refer
4/4/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal ยง 8-4.1-6 regarding additional credit for a master's degree.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0959

Introduced
4/7/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Report Pass
5/7/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment/fines against co-employees.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0973

Introduced
4/16/25  
Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0983

Introduced
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0990

Introduced
4/16/25  
"SAVE ACT") (Establishes the "safeguarding American veteran empowerment act".
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S1011

Introduced
5/2/25  
Amends the definition of affordable housing to create separate categories for housing using private or state financing as opposed to financing from the federal government.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S1016

Introduced
5/2/25  
Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the interlock systems.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S1022

Introduced
5/5/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 29TH OF 2025, TO BE "COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND DAY" AND HONORING THE COLLEGE'S 60TH ANNIVERSARY
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S1037

Introduced
5/9/25  
Amends the Identity Theft Protection Act by eliminating current definitions and establishing new definitions. This act also raises the penalty provisions for violations.