Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 139)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0639
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
EDUCATION -- THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES ACT - Creates the School Libraries Act.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0640
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
4/30/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Passed
6/17/25
TOWNS AND CITIES -- HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION - Updates the statutory terminology by replacing the phrase "institutions of higher learning" with that of "educational institutions" and redefines child daycare centers as educational institutions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0641
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- LEAD BY EXAMPLE ACT - Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state property.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0642
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- UNIFORM SEPTAGE DISPOSAL FEE - Establishes a uniform wastewater disposal fee in the amount of fifteen cents ($.15) per every ten thousand gallons of wastewater effluent.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0643
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
FISH AND WILDLIFE -- SHELLFISH - Creates a shellfish hatchery program established by the department of environmental management to foster sustainable development and resiliency of the state's shellfish industry.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0644
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Enrolled
6/17/25
Passed
6/24/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Strikes the words "which is naturally occurring" with regard to any promulgated rules and regulations of the department of environmental management (DEM) relating to the remediation of arsenic.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0645
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Exempts certain products that have PFAS if deemed safe by FDA.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0646
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Restricts application of pesticides and rodenticides at schools and child care centers and requires schools to provide copies of notice to parents and guardians.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0647
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0648
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0649
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/17/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/2/25
INSURANCE -- PET INSURANCE ACT - Provides for the sale and regulation of pet insurance policies and their contents and provisions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0650
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER POLLUTION - Effective September 1, 2025, requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0651
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities. That choose to participate. Reports would be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and would be submitted to the department of environmental management.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0652
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REFUSE DISPOSAL - Adds advanced recycling as a definition for refuse disposal. Adds the advanced recycling facility that means a facility that receives, stores and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks using advanced recycling.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0653
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
EDUCATION -- THE ONWARD WE LEARN SCHOLARSHIP ACT - Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program or the Rhode Island Hope Scholarship program to be reimbursed to the onward we learn for any scholarships paid on behalf of Rhode Island College students.