Rhode Island State Senator

Todd Patalano 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

RI

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.
RI

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.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0598

Introduced
3/6/25  
Provides a criminal background check procedure for for-hire intrastate passenger transportation services.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0619

Introduced
3/6/25  
Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and families.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0523

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Enrolled
6/10/25  
Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
RI

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.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0550

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
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.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0551

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows seizure and rehoming of animals prior to criminal charges being heard.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0553

Introduced
2/26/25  
Tenants with disabilities may request to keep an emotional support animals.
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 S0559

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Refer
6/14/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0563

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
RI

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.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0584

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Establishes a restricted receipt account at the DLT for hospitality industry workforce training grants, funded by an annual $50 dollar fee to be charged by RIDOH to food service establishments.