Rhode Island State Senator

Melissa Murray 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 15)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0701

Introduced
3/7/25  
Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in the state when those services are rendered.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0702

Introduced
3/7/25  
Requires every individual or group health insurance plan on or after January 1, 2026, that provides benefits to reimburse child service providers for therapy services offered through EOHHS certified Kids Connect/Therapeutic Services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0704

Introduced
3/7/25  
Mandates transparency in nursing home finances and would establish procedures for compliance.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0705

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/20/25  
Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination services, care planning and follow-up care recommendations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0710

Introduced
3/7/25  
Directs the RITBA design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority. Any newly constructed bridges with a deck height of over one hundred feet (100 ft) would be required to have safety barriers of safety netting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0713

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Provides for warming center and cooling center alerts to trigger certain procedures municipalities shall follow during extreme heat or cold to help at-risk individuals with resources including, but not limited to, warming and cooling centers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0719

Introduced
3/7/25  
Increases the notification time about rent increases and termination of tenancy for month-to-month tenants.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0722

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0723

Introduced
3/7/25  
Exempts certain cities and towns whose communities exceed the low and moderate income housing threshold from the tax of the previous year's gross scheduled rental income.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0724

Introduced
3/7/25  
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
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0728

Introduced
3/7/25  
Establishes the rights of adoptive/foster children or those in guardianship, to have post-separation visitation with their siblings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0730

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enrolled
6/3/25  
Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0731

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Prohibits the state from seeking reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of disabled Rhode Islanders from an ABLE account after death of the designated beneficiary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0733

Introduced
3/7/25  
Requires the court to set reasonable bail for all those individuals who appear before it as probation violators and establish a presumption of personal recognizance unless the new alleged offense is a crime of violence as defined in the act.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0706

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable.