Rhode Island State Senator

Valarie Lawson 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 11)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0795

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Enrolled
6/16/25  
Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a ninety-day (90) supply may be dispensed at any one time.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0796

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0800

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Allows retired state employees who worked for the unified judicial system as certified or qualified court interpreters to be employed or reemployed for a limited period in a given year.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0802

Introduced
3/14/25  
Requires the department of human services to provide childcare assistance to families, including those served through DCYF, who meet the requirements of a protective services category as defined in CFR 98.20 (a)(3)(ii).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0820

Introduced
3/14/25  
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- OF SUFFRAGE (Would propose to the voters of the state a constitutional amendment regarding eligibility to vote and to be a candidate.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0824

Introduced
3/14/25  
Creates the reproductive freedom and gender affirming care health data privacy act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0826

Introduced
3/14/25  
Establishes a seven (7) member public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission to approve all requests for proposals submitted for public-private partnership construction of qualified facilities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0829

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Provides temporary caregivers benefits to any eligible bone marrow transplant donor or living organ donor and would provide definitions for both
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0830

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Refer
5/7/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
DMV to provide credit for portions of unused voluntarily cancelled vehicle registrations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0833

Introduced
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Refer
5/7/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
Provides that when a registrant voluntarily cancels the registrant's motor vehicle registration, that person receives a credit for the time remaining on the original registration to be applied to a future registration.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0837

Introduced
3/18/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MARCH OF 2025 AS “ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS MONTH” IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0841

Introduced
3/19/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL (SGAC)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0845

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Provides for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Meals on Wheels Inc. Fund commencing with tax year 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0848

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Imposes a hospital licensing fee for fiscal year 2026 against net patient-services revenue of every non-government owned hospital for the hospital’s first fiscal year ending on or after January 1, 2024.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0849

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Establishes a reimbursement system for a municipalities cost of training public safety personnel when they are hired by a different municipality or public safety agency within Rhode Island within 3 years of receiving the public safety training.