Rhode Island State Senator

Jonathon Acosta 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 10)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0811

Introduced
3/14/25  
Establishes The Body Cameras for Correctional Facilities Act which mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervision rolls to wear body cameras while on duty in their assigned facility.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0820

Introduced
3/14/25  
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- OF SUFFRAGE (Would propose to the voters of the state a constitutional amendment regarding eligibility to vote and to be a candidate.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0832

Introduced
3/14/25  
Permits continuation of instructor-led virtual instruction for drivers’ education for two-year period. Board of education required to provide report comparing test scores of virtual versus in-person instruction to house speaker and senate president.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0834

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING ST. PATRICK’S DAY AND HONORS IRELAND’S ROLE IN THE UNITED STATES WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0835

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE CELEBRATION OF ST. JOSEPH'S DAY
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0836

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING AND RECOGNIZING EMILY SANTERRE FOR BEING NAMED MISS IRELAND IN THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE IN WEST WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0837

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MARCH OF 2025 AS “ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS MONTH” IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0838

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH 17, 2025, TO BE "PROFOUND AUTISM DAY IN RHODE ISLAND"
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0839

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE BRYANT UNIVERSITY BULLDOGS MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM ON WINNING THE AMERICA EAST REGULAR SEASON AND CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS AND EARNING A BERTH IN THE NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0847

Introduced
3/19/25  
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 Senate Bill S0885

Introduced
3/27/25  
Extends certain protocols applicable to motor vehicle manufacturers to their distributors and factory branches, as well as updates warranty reimbursement and recall obligation policies.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0927

Introduced
3/28/25  
Increases, for persons subject to the Code of Ethics, the maximum value of an acceptable gift to $50.00 from a single interested person, but in no case can the gift have an aggregate value of more than $250 in any calendar year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0979

Introduced
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Engrossed
5/8/25  
Refer
5/9/25  
Enrolled
6/3/25  
Amends Pawtucket property tax classification system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0988

Introduced
4/16/25  
Refer
4/16/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Includes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday and Washington's Birthday as holidays for purposes of work on holidays and Sundays.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S1042

Introduced
5/9/25  
Refer
5/9/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the Community College of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.