Rhode Island State Senator

Virginia Sosnowski 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 2)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0091

Introduced
1/31/25  
Establishes the environmental justice advisory board (EJAB) to implement standards for buildings that emit greenhouse gases.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0092

Introduced
1/31/25  
Imposes a seventy-five cent (0.75) surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies as well as an account to benefit RIPTA from the payment of sales taxes collected from rideshares.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0104

Introduced
1/31/25  
Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0120

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0130

Introduced
1/31/25  
Changes the fine for any person convicted of a first violation of this chapter from $85 to $200, and increases the period of time that the violator may be ordered to pick up litter.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0136

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Enrolled
6/20/25  
Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0138

Introduced
1/31/25  
Increases sentences for carrying a stolen firearm when committing a crime of violence and for possessing a stolen firearm. Requires that a person convicted of these offenses serve a period of time in which they would not be eligible for parole/ probation.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0139

Introduced
1/31/25  
Changes the community service requirements of a sentence related to the violation of § 11-44-21.1 relating to defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0140

Introduced
1/31/25  
Prohibits defendants who are serving probation for driving under the influence death resulting from earning good time off their probationary period.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0147

Introduced
1/31/25  
Expands the deinstitutionalization subsidy aid program in the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to include adoptive parent(s) or siblings(s).
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0153

Introduced
1/31/25  
Establishes a statutory framework designed to protect minors who are engaging in the business of vloging on social media and the Internet.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0163

Introduced
2/4/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANTHONY V. ARICO
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0168

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Refer
5/7/25  
Report Pass
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0106

Introduced
1/31/25  
Amends modifications to income tax for residents to now include an exemption for a foreign service officer's pension.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0161

Introduced
2/3/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 916 AUXILIARY