Rhode Island State Senator

Ryan Pearson Authored & Sponsored Legislation

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0487

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0494

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows unpaid fines for violations of municipal ordinances to be recorded as alien in the land records, where the violating real property is located. The lien would be added to amount of real estate taxes owed on the property at issue.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0496

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0513

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 and provide for existing polling places that exceed the maximum number of voters, not be required to be changed until the next decennial redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0514

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Requires the state retirement board to publish online all archived video or audio recordings and all future recordings of meetings of the board.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0515

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0516

Introduced
2/26/25  
Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the person committed a criminal offense.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0520

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0521

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0505

Introduced
2/26/25  
Permit but not mandate, a municipality to allow certain requirements as exceptions to statewide treatment of ADUs to max of 800 sq. ft., owner, family member and caretaker occupation.