Rhode Island State Senator

Louis Dipalma 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0468

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Prohibits the state, participating ERISA, or any health plan from purchasing referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0543

Introduced
2/26/25  
Defines a vape shop and exempt it from the prohibition of selling electronic nicotine-delivery system products.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0552

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Makes it a felony for any person to remove or attempt to remove any firearm or other weapon or any communication device from any peace officer or investigator of the department of attorney general.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0586

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Requires employers to protect employees from extreme temperatures through rest breaks, PPE, training, and equipment, and mandates quarterly supervisor training, to recognize and mitigate heat- and cold-related risks.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0471

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0477

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health plan as of January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0486

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes a process whereby large drug manufacturers, may be penalized for prescription drug price increases where there is no, or inadequate, new evidence to support the price increase.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0504

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires cities and towns to permit attached single-family dwellings in any residential zoning districts and each such dwelling would be entitled to its own parcel thorough subdivision regardless lot size or base zone standards.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0532

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
5/29/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Allows boats and marine assets to utilize the overweight oversize annual blanket permit that was in effect until 2022, and for the resumption of the prior practice of permitting for boats and marine asset transportation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0546

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0591

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
3/19/25  
Engrossed
3/25/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Engrossed
5/1/25  
Names the new Sakonnet River Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet River Bridge.”
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0601

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0603

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Provides standards for developing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0608

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
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 Senate Bill S0614

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Provides technical and other corrections to various general laws relating to taxation.