Rhode Island State Senator

Valarie Lawson 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0189

Introduced
2/7/25  
Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0197

Introduced
2/7/25  
Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0198

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0217

Introduced
2/7/25  
Allows holders of a Class P license to purchase alcoholic beverages from either a retail or wholesale establishment in the State of Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0220

Introduced
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Amends Rhode Island’s existing healthcare services funding plan act by adding an account relating to a new psychiatry resource network to fund Rhode Island’s present PediPRN and MomsPRN.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0221

Introduced
2/10/25  
Provides certain controls over prescription drug costs by imposing transparency, oversight and accountability requirements on commercial insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0224

Introduced
2/11/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY 11, 2025, AS "THE 2ND RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT/BLACK REGIMENT RECOGNITION DAY" TO COMMEMORATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF BLACK SOLDIERS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0225

Introduced
2/11/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY 7TH THROUGH THE 14TH OF 2025, TO BE "CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT AWARENESS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0238

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/7/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0240

Introduced
2/13/25  
Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the federal eligibility benchmark.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0244

Introduced
2/13/25  
Increases the Rhode Island earned-income credit to twenty percent (20%) on January 1, 2026. Such credit would not exceed the amount of state income tax.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0247

Introduced
2/13/25  
Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be under the jurisdiction of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS).
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0254

Introduced
2/13/25  
Would provide children up to age three (3) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearly redetermination due solely to administrative barriers.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill S0258

Introduced
2/13/25  
Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state allocating $30,000,000 per year to fund the program and staffing within the department of public safety.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0259

Introduced
2/13/25  
Provides that a student's enrollment in Medicaid would be included in calculating and determining the student success factor for use in the foundation education-aid formula.