Rhode Island State Senator

Walter Felag 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 9)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0597

Introduced
3/4/25  
SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 8, 2025, AS "INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY", AND THE MONTH OF MARCH AS "WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH", IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0601

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/17/25  
Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0603

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Provides standards for developing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0608

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0614

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Provides technical and other corrections to various general laws relating to taxation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0623

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Amends the law relating to casino crimes to be consistent with the advent of iGaming and the relevant age restrictions to participate in iGaming.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0648

Introduced
3/7/25  
Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0658

Introduced
3/7/25  
Amends the Rhode Island works program to allow lawful permanent residents to receive benefits without a waiting period.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0659

Introduced
3/7/25  
Recalculates the retirement allowance related to early retirement and pension benefits for teachers, state employees and municipal employees.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0665

Introduced
3/7/25  
Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0667

Introduced
3/7/25  
JOINT RESOLUTION APPROVING THE APPROPRIATION OF $1,100,000 OF FUNDS FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CATEGORICAL BUDGET (Requests appropriation of $1,100,000 for higher quality infant and toddler early care and education.)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0670

Introduced
3/7/25  
Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0693

Introduced
3/7/25  
Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0620

Introduced
3/6/25  
Prohibits the holding of multiple drivers licenses or identification cards and would change the term "re-constructed salvage" to "rebuilt salvage" for purposes of the Rhode Island salvage law.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S0625

Introduced
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
4/30/25  
Engrossed
5/8/25  
Refer
5/9/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Adds “space force” to the branches of the military included in various sections of general law regarding the veterans home, veterans cemetery and the power of armed forces officers to take acknowledgements.