Rhode Island State Senator

Virginia Sosnowski Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0643

Introduced
3/7/25  
Creates a shellfish hatchery program established by the department of environmental management to foster sustainable development and resiliency of the state's shellfish industry.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0647

Introduced
3/7/25  
Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0650

Introduced
3/7/25  
Requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0651

Introduced
3/7/25  
Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities. That choose to participate. Reports would be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and would be submitted to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0690

Introduced
3/7/25  
Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services and mandates annual reporting.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0668

Introduced
3/7/25  
Requires any state agency that prints more than fifty (50) copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use state-owned or operated print shop cable of processing the material.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0681

Introduced
3/7/25  
Amends powers/duties of the office of the health insurance commissioner to increase total cost of care for services reimbursed under contracts after risk adjustment that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers percentage increase.