Rhode Island State Representative

Karen Alzate 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5712

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes fusion voting in Rhode Island, allowing candidates to appear on ballots as nominees of multiple political parties, for the same office.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5714

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/21/25  
Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5724

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits state or municipality from contracts to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, and if such contract exists, it must end by July 1, 2026 and prohibits using public resources to detain those individuals.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5731

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/15/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Authorizes driver education schools to offer the driver training curriculum in a classroom setting or an instructor-led virtual format.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5738

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5743

Introduced
2/26/25  
Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2025.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5744

Introduced
2/26/25  
Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for students and teachers, with eligibility requirements and donations.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5752

Introduced
2/26/25  
Imposes a property tax on non-owner occupied residential properties assessed worth at one million dollars ($1,000,000) and less than two million dollars ($2,000,000) and a higher tax on properties assessed at two million dollars ($2,000,000) or more.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5782

Introduced
2/26/25  
Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to 27% of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality annually.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5798

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
3/20/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Engrossed
6/21/25  
Adds the process of permitting the construction of attached single-family dwellings in identified zoning districts as a factor that zoning ordinances must address.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5799

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
3/20/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Provides that minor subdivisions would include oversized lot subdivisions under certain circumstances and relative to zoning ordinances, permit a modification to allow "neighborhood character-based modifications" under certain circumstances.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5801

Introduced
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/21/25  
Amends several definitions relating to low- or moderate-income housing as well as the procedure for the approval of low- or moderate-income housing.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5825

Introduced
2/28/25  
Restricts increases in monthly common expenses and limit special assessments to cover unforeseen costs not included in condo association’s approved annual budget for common expenses in associations where the minority of the units are deed-restricted units
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5829

Introduced
2/28/25  
Makes several amendments to the cannabis act relating to applications for licensure, the social equity assistance program and the application of cannabis tax revenue.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5771

Introduced
2/26/25  
Mandates Medicaid coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment.