Rhode Island State Senator

Leonidas Raptakis Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0554

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0555

Introduced
2/26/25  
Distinguishes, in two separate subsections, a first offense for reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor, and a second or subsequent offense for reckless driving, which is a felony.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0556

Introduced
2/26/25  
Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0558

Introduced
2/26/25  
Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0560

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amends §§ 14-1-3 and 14-5-8, relating to possession of marijuana and proceedings in family court ensuring that children under 17 years of age in possession of less than 2 oz of marijuana are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0565

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides for a 10 year statute of limitations for the violation of second degree sexual assault.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0568

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Requires that all new school buses be equipped with live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring systems as of July 1, 2027. All buses, new and used, must have the monitoring systems installed by July 1, 2032.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0576

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides additional exception to prohibition on usage of wireless communication device while driving and clarifies that use for purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise affixed to vehicle and not held in the motorist's hand.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0571

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amends the section of law relative to violations for driving after denial, revocation or suspension of a license and expands the list of offenses for which an unlicensed motorist would be in violation.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0574

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides that a hearing required before a judge or magistrate may adjudge a motorist in contempt for failure to comply with the court's orders regarding a conditional hardship license, and defines penalties for violation of a hardship/interlock order.