Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 130)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0504
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- SUBDIVISION OF LAND -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Requires cities and towns to permit attached single-family dwellings in any residential zoning districts and each such dwelling would be entitled to its own parcel thorough subdivision regardless lot size or base zone standards.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0505
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES - Permit but not mandate, a municipality to allow certain requirements as exceptions to statewide treatment of ADUs to max of 800 sq. ft., owner, family member and caretaker occupation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0506
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Eliminates provisions establishing a legislative regulation committee, and would also repeal the provision that codes and standards adopted by the state building code standards committee subject to approval by the legislative regulation committee.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0507
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0508
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular and certified mail.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0509
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
PROPERTY -- CONDOMINIUM LAW - Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0510
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
HIGHWAYS -- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE ROADS - Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0511
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Removes the five (5) year waiting period for filing a motion to seal an eviction court file. It also deletes the numerical limitation on filing seal requests.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0512
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL TENANT'S RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION ACT - Creates the division of civil representation within the department of housing and require civil representation by a Designated Legal Organization to provide legal representation to all tenants who qualify in eviction proceedings.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0513
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
ELECTION -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS - Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 and provide for existing polling places that exceed the maximum number of voters, not be required to be changed until the next decennial redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0514
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/23/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- ADMINISTRATION - Requires the state retirement board to publish online all archived video or audio recordings and all future recordings of meetings of the board.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0515
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0516
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- ARREST - Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the person committed a criminal offense.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0517
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0518
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Creates an 11 member commission to analyze the impact and potential economic benefits of bail reforms on Black Rhode Islanders, and would report back by February 5, 2026, and expire on April 5, 2026.