Rhode Island State Senator

Walter Felag 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 10)

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0694

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Details each of those limited emergency circumstances where a registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurses, may safely administer sedation, such as critical life-saving or emergency situations where there is an imminent threat to life or limb.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0699

Introduced
3/7/25  
Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0707

Introduced
3/7/25  
Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the health insurance coverage through the Rhode Island health benefits exchange.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0710

Introduced
3/7/25  
Directs the RITBA design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority. Any newly constructed bridges with a deck height of over one hundred feet (100 ft) would be required to have safety barriers of safety netting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0720

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
4/10/25  
Engrossed
5/1/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Report Pass
5/6/25  
Enrolled
5/22/25  
Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0725

Introduced
3/7/25  
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER (Proposes a state constitutional amendment that no department or other entity created by the state would have poser to incur debt in excess of $ 50,000, without express approval from the legislature and voters.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0729

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0730

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enrolled
6/3/25  
Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0731

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
5/20/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Prohibits the state from seeking reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of disabled Rhode Islanders from an ABLE account after death of the designated beneficiary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0743

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Beginning on July 1, 2025, allows state union employees to negotiate longevity payments in their collective bargaining agreements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0751

Introduced
3/7/25  
Amends the definition of infectious diseases to include the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0754

Introduced
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0759

Introduced
3/11/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH OF 2025, AS "COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0760

Introduced
3/11/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 4TH ANNUAL "RI CRAFT BEER WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND ON MARCH 7TH THROUGH MARCH 16TH OF 2025
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0761

Introduced
3/11/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calendar year.