Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 131)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0519
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
7/1/25
EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0520
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS - Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0521
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES - Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0522
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Requires all write-in votes, regardless of qualification, to be reported and published by the state board of elections, on its website.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0523
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT - Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0524
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ELECTIONS -- RESIDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY ACT - Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the division of statewide planning, to be utilized for redistricting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0525
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT - Requires submission of a domestic violence/sexual assault reporting form when the domestic violence response or investigation involves a verbal argument or dispute.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0526
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0527
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
PROPERTY -- BY POSSESSION AND PRESCRIPTION - Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and excepts in connection with a right to pass with carriages, to be acquired by prescription or adverse use.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0528
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RIGHT-OF-WAY - Amends the general law relative to right-of-way of pedestrians to reference the schedule of violations for the adjudication of traffic offenses contained in § 31-41.1-4.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0529
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Passed
6/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD - Adds a provision in the statute relating to one way highways, providing an increased penalty when a motorist travels the wrong way on an interstate highway or an entrance or exit ramp connected to an interstate highway.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0530
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0531
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND CANNABIS ACT - Makes several amendments to the cannabis act relating to applications for licensure, the social equity assistance program and the application of cannabis tax revenue.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0532
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/22/25
Refer
5/23/25
Report Pass
5/29/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Passed
6/10/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS - Allows boats and marine assets to utilize the overweight oversize annual blanket permit that was in effect until 2022, and for the resumption of the prior practice of permitting for boats and marine asset transportation.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0533
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESTRICTIVE CONFINEMENT OVERSIGHT ACT - Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplinary and administrative confinement at the department of corrections.