Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 135)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0579
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- COMMITTEES AND STAFF - Requires nonprofit that receives grants or funding from the general assembly over $50,000 to provide certain information relating to employee compensation of the previous year's 5 highest compensated employees with reportable income over $100,000.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0580
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PROPERTY -- RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT - Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually unless the landlord is granted exemption by the secretary of housing. Provides tenants with a civil action to recover damages, including award of attorneys' fees and punitive damages, for any violations.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0581
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/27/25
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT ADMINISTRATION - Protect the personal information of judicial officers and their immediate family members who serve or have served the RI unified judicial system, as well as judicial officers who reside in RI and who serve or have served in the federal courts.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0582
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- COST - Provides that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capacity.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0583
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST TOWNS - Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0584
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS - Establishes a restricted receipt account at the DLT for hospitality industry workforce training grants, funded by an annual $50 dollar fee to be charged by RIDOH to food service establishments.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0585
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- E-VERIFY COMPLIANCE - Establishes the E-Verify compliance program which would require all non-governmental employers within the state with 3 or more employees to apply to participate in the federal E-Verify program and to agree to participate in the program, if accepted.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0586
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH - Requires employers to protect employees from extreme temperatures through rest breaks, PPE, training, and equipment, and mandates quarterly supervisor training, to recognize and mitigate heat- and cold-related risks.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0587
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- BENEFITS - Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0588
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- ORGAN-DONATION LEAVE ACT - Provides for paid leave for a state employee who donates an organ. The duration of the leave is dependent on the type of donation and notice should be provided to the employer at least thirty (30) days prior to the leave.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0589
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0590
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE LOTTERY - Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the chair and vice chair of the committee.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0591
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/26/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Engrossed
5/1/25
Passed
5/6/25
RENAMING THE NEW SAKONNET RIVER BRIDGE, AQUIDNECK ISLAND - Names the new Sakonnet River Bridge as the “Staff Sergeant Christopher Potts Sakonnet River Bridge.”
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0592
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES - Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
RI
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0593
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - Prohibits public utilities, serving greater 100,000 customers from recovering through rates any direct or indirect cost associated with, amongst other costs, advertising, marketing, communications.