Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 104)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0114
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/27/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DEFENDING AFFORDABLE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS ACT - Prohibits any health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, manufacturer or other third-party payor from discriminating against any 340B entity participating in a drug discount program.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0115
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglycemia. No copayment or deductible would be required.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0116
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT - Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by allowing medical providers to request step therapy exceptions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0117
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0118
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NURSING HOME WORKFORCE STANDARDS BOARD ACT - Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0119
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF BUPRENORPHINE - Encourages and authorizes the department of health to adopt rules and regulations that lead to the more liberal utilization of buprenorphine.
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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
Passed
7/1/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - 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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0121
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0122
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/27/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM - Establishes a program operated by the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation called the "housing land bank" to create affordable housing in RI with the authority to buy, receive, and hold real property for housing development.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0123
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/17/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
6/26/25
TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES - Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0124
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Refer
6/13/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee," and clarifies that the board may defer a pending unfair labor practice charge to allow for the grievance and arbitration process to move forward pursuant to the charging parties collective bargaining agreement.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0125
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at sixteen dollars ($16) per hour, 2027 at seventeen dollars ($17) per hour.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0126
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/11/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion, as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding political or religious matters.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0127
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - 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.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0128
Introduced
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the DOC to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires that those facilities provide in-person contact visits.