Rhode Island State Senator

Todd Patalano Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0493

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows a landlord that did not obtain a lead certificate pursuant to the lead mitigation laws of chapter 128.1 of title 42 due to the fact that the state lacks the adequate resources to conduct inspections.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0502

Introduced
2/26/25  
Specifies that low and moderate income housing exists when a city or town has adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring that all housing developments include at least fifty percent (50%) low or moderate income housing units.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0503

Introduced
2/26/25  
Create a process to establish a low- or moderate-income housing that exceeds sixty (60) units.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0523

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0544

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases the penalty for anyone found guilty of reckless driving while eluding police to a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment and subject to a loss of license from 1 to 2 years and a possible forfeiture of their motor vehicle.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0550

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase penalties for malicious injury to or killing of animals.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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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 S0515

Introduced
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 S0539

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides amendments to the assessment of filing fees required to appeal from certain matters adjudicated by the district court.