Rhode Island State Senator

Jonathon Acosta 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0295

Introduced
2/13/25  
Prohibits state and municipal officials or body from entering into and renewing any agreements that will be used to detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0368

Introduced
2/25/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION WELCOMING SCOUTING AMERICA, NARRAGANSETT COUNCIL, TO THE RHODE ISLAND STATE HOUSE AND JOYFULLY CELEBRATING SCOUTING MONTH IN FEBRUARY
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0369

Introduced
2/25/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER AS SUBSTANCE USE RECOVERY AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND CALLING FOR THE END OF STIGMA AND EMPOWERING RECOVERY THROUGH LANGUAGE IN RHODE ISLAND

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0296

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0299

Introduced
2/13/25  
Prohibits members of law enforcement from engaging in sexual penetration with individuals in their custody. The act also provides that a person convicted of custodial law enforcement sexual penetration would face imprisonment for not more than 3 years.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0311

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0312

Introduced
2/13/25  
Changes the name of the holiday on the second Monday of August from Victory Day to Peace and Remembrance Day.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0322

Introduced
2/21/25  
Establishes "The Children's Cardiac Safety Act", and provide for childhood cardiac screening based on modules that incorporate current best practices.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0324

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0329

Introduced
2/21/25  
Creates an additional tax rate of 3% on taxable income over $625,000 in 2025 dollars. Applies to tax years 2026 and thereafter and not retroactively.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0331

Introduced
2/21/25  
Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to propose, by October 1, 2025, funding alternatives to increase state aid for districts with high poverty, with recommendations on funding levels and their impacts.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0333

Introduced
2/21/25  
Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other interventions where there is a clinical need.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0336

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0339

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0371

Introduced
2/25/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 181ST ANNIVERSARY OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC INDEPENDENCE ON FEBRUARY 27, 2025