Rhode Island State Senator

Valarie Lawson 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0359

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0361

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0364

Introduced
2/21/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/15/25  
Provides that exemptions to the prohibition of liquor licenses within two hundred feet (200') of schools or places of worship do not eliminate neighboring property owners’ remonstrance rights to object to the license.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0369

Introduced
2/25/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER AS SUBSTANCE USE RECOVERY AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND CALLING FOR THE END OF STIGMA AND EMPOWERING RECOVERY THROUGH LANGUAGE IN RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0370

Introduced
2/25/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING FEBRUARY OF 2025, AS "BLACK HISTORY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0372

Introduced
2/25/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES TO THE MURPHY FAMILY ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE JOHN M. MURPHY
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0376

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amends the definition of "regulated institution", to include non-depository trust companies organized under the law of any state or the United States Government.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0377

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes the “2025 Rhode Island Broadband Transparency and Consumer Protection Act."
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0382

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would be required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation fringe benefit program.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0385

Introduced
2/26/25  
Impose requirements and actions that certain electric distribution and gas distribution companies must meet prior to implementing rate changes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0391

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires every elementary and secondary school within the State of Rhode Island to provide and maintain clearly visible and easily accessible trauma kits within the school. It also provides immunity if assistance is rendered.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0394

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Establishes guidelines for the expansion of high-quality public prekindergarten education programs for children ages three (3) and four (4) to increase children’s school readiness.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0406

Introduced
2/26/25  
Creates the Microplastics Reduction Act to prohibit the sale or distribution of products containing synthetic polymer micro particles.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0410

Introduced
2/26/25  
Changes the retirement allowance based on accrued benefits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0411

Introduced
2/26/25  
Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reaching age fifty-seven (57).