Rhode Island State Representative

Jose Batista 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5507

Introduced
2/13/25  
Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5510

Introduced
2/13/25  
Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant within sixty (60) days after the close of their fiscal year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5515

Introduced
2/13/25  
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 House Bill H5523

Introduced
2/13/25  
Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5534

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Exempts certain urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. This act would also define urban and small farmers and urban farmland.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5550

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5649

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/22/25  
Engrossed
4/29/25  
Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the traffic tribunal.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5650

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits family court from detaining or committing any youth, 12 years or younger, to training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault, or an attempt to commit such offenses there is no other reasonable placement.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5652

Introduced
2/26/25  
Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5675

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5676

Introduced
2/26/25  
Limits residential rent increases to ten percent (10%) plus the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) annually.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5737

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amend a provision in the general laws relative to additional benefits payable to retired judges and their surviving spouses.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5745

Introduced
2/26/25  
Reduces the time, from three (3) years to six (6) months, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5512

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5571

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases minimum amount for required damages and time to perform appraisal from three days to four.