Rhode Island State Senator

Valarie Lawson 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0263

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/14/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to eligible individuals enrolled as plan beneficiaries.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0266

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Engrossed
6/3/25  
Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0268

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2026, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0272

Introduced
2/13/25  
Mandates that all restaurants offering children's meals offer at least two (2) children's meals that complies with certain detailed nutritional standards set forth in the act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0288

Introduced
2/13/25  
Provides that, for the general officers of the state, no person could be elected to the same general office more than twice.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0313

Introduced
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0314

Introduced
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/21/25  
Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the authority to impose sanctions for violations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0318

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Allows for the procurement of nuclear power.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0329

Introduced
2/21/25  
Creates an additional tax rate of 3% on taxable income over $625,000 in 2025 dollars. Applies to tax years 2026 and thereafter and not retroactively.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0332

Introduced
2/21/25  
Exempts individual retirement accounts as a countable resource for public assistance. This act also prohibits the state as a creditor against an ABLE account in the event of death of a beneficiary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0333

Introduced
2/21/25  
Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other interventions where there is a clinical need.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0339

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0344

Introduced
2/21/25  
Requires EOHHS to develop a budget and seek funding to establish an early childhood mental health hub program to improve access to infant and early childhood mental health services for children under six (6) years and their families.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0346

Introduced
2/21/25  
Establishes a single-payer health care insurance system, consolidating public and private payments into a more efficient Medicare-for-all style program, funded by progressive taxes, to reduce health care costs.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0350

Introduced
2/21/25  
Defines a quorum of the building code standards committee be a majority of the current board members and amends the state building code to require that sections provide that dwelling units from one to four (4) units use the international residential code.