Rhode Island State Representative

William O'Brien 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 3)

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5266

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
6/5/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5271

Introduced
1/31/25  
Authorizes retired police officers and firefighters to earn income in addition to their earnable compensation; provided that, the amount would not exceed 5 times the rate of earnable compensation currently in force.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5272

Introduced
1/31/25  
Allows the owner of a rented or leased motor vehicle to establish non-liability for traffic violations.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5277

Introduced
1/31/25  
Changes the process of nominating candidates for the general election, by replacing the political party primary with a primary general election.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5283

Introduced
1/31/25  
Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5293

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Report Pass
5/28/25  
Enrolled
6/17/25  
Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5301

Introduced
2/5/25  
Expands responsibilities of agencies, persons or entities that store, own, collect, process, maintain, acquire, use, or licenses data, who experiences a security breach, include providing additional information to persons affected and law enforcement
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5304

Introduced
2/5/25  
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 House Bill H5318

Introduced
2/5/25  
Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on or after the new July 1, 2012, cutoff date.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5335

Introduced
2/7/25  
Nullifies the department of elementary and secondary education recommendation that the turnaround plan for Providence public schools be continued.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5364

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/20/25  
Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publication once time in newspaper of general circulation.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5273

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Engrossed
3/25/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Report Pass
5/22/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Requires all lifeguards, and park and forest rangers, who work on a full time basis at any public beach or facility to be trained in administering opioid antagonists.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5322

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
6/17/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/21/25  
Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5329

Introduced
2/7/25  
Defines a vape shop and exempt it from the prohibition of selling electronic nicotine-delivery system products.
RI

Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5339

Introduced
2/7/25  
Provides that for the period up until July 1, 2027, an applicant for a teaching certificate in Rhode Island would not be required to complete a standardized teacher's examination as a prerequisite to obtaining a teaching certificate.