Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 133)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0549
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Passed
6/24/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT - Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training. The operator of the premises shall maintain records of the completed training.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0550
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase penalties for malicious injury to or killing of animals.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0551
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Allows seizure and rehoming of animals prior to criminal charges being heard.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0552
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- DISARMING A PEACE OFFICER - Makes it a felony for any person to remove or attempt to remove any firearm or other weapon or any communication device from any peace officer or investigator of the department of attorney general.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0553
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RHODE ISLAND FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES ACT - Tenants with disabilities may request to keep an emotional support animals.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0554
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
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT - Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0555
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES - Distinguishes, in two separate subsections, a first offense for reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor, and a second or subsequent offense for reckless driving, which is a felony.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0556
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AGGRESSIVE DRIVING - Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0557
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Passed
6/26/25
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime on a military installation located in the State of Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0558
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0559
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Refer
6/14/25
Report Pass
6/16/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/27/25
ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0560
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT - Amends §§ 14-1-3 and 14-5-8, relating to possession of marijuana and proceedings in family court ensuring that children under 17 years of age in possession of less than 2 oz of marijuana are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0561
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0562
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0563
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.