Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 112)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0234
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Requires transition planning for high school students with disabilities, who have a “504” plan, like the transition planning required for high school students with disabilities, who have an individualized education program (IEP).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0235
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
6/17/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
EDUCATION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAMS - Requires the school board or committees of cities and towns to establish a safety and behavioral health committee and also lays out the representation requirements committee responsibilities to ensure a stable learning environment for all students.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0236
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0237
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- RIGHTS OF STUDENTS ACT - Provides protections for students and parents against discrimination on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression in schools. Allows students to pray or engage in religious activities before, during or after school.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0238
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
LIBRARIES -- THE FREEDOM TO READ ACT - Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0239
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
EDUCATION -- RHODE ISLAND EARLY EDUCATOR COMPENSATION STABILIZATION ACT - Directs the departments of human services and education to work together to sustain and strengthen existing workforce development and compensation programs for educators working in licensed child care and early learning programs statewide.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0240
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL ACT - Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the federal eligibility benchmark.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0241
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/11/25
Report Pass
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/3/25
Passed
6/10/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS as of January 1, 2027.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0242
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
3/25/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Passed
4/4/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUDGET COMMISSION - Creates the Warwick public schools budget commission consisting of 5 members to oversee the operations of Warwick public schools and to present a preliminary analysis of the school district's financial situation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0243
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all state licensed healthcare facilities to convert the powering of their operations from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. DOH promulgates rules and regulations to implement the requirements.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0244
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Increases the Rhode Island earned-income credit to twenty percent (20%) on January 1, 2026. Such credit would not exceed the amount of state income tax.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0245
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for all social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0246
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Raises the minimum fee per barrel of petroleum products or crude oil from five cents ($0.05) to ten cents ($0.10) per barrel as part of the uniform oil spill response and prevention fee.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0247
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS-EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INFANTS - Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be under the jurisdiction of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0248
Introduced
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
HIGHWAYS -- RELOCATION OF UTILITY SERVICES - Utility relocation costs related to highway construction to be partially or fully paid for by the state.