Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 36)
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2887
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES-DENTAL INSURANCE COVERAGE - Clarifies the manner in which certain dental insurance benefits are paid directly to the provider.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2861
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS, AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows electronic notifications modernize language for notifications, synchronize renewal dates for certain license-types, streamline licensing requirements across several license-types, and update the unlicensed health care practices statute.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2917
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 - Allows the town of Smithfield to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoning laws and/or ordinances of the town.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2803
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLY - Requires that a backflow test be performed every ten (10) years, rather than the current yearly inspection.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2769
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
INSURANCE -- FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES AND RESERVES - Establishes minimum limitations standards for structural property damage claims, and voids any policy provision, endorsement, condition, limitation, agreement, or claim practice that shortens those standards.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2846
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
TOWNS AND CITIES -- RELIEF OF INJURED AND DECEASED FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS - Removes the definition of "totally and permanently disabled" from the general law affording college tuition paid by the state to the spouse and children of active members of the police force who are killed or disabled during duty.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2873
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Engrossed
3/24/26
Refer
3/25/26
EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS - Requires inspection and evaluation of indoor air quality in public schools, departments of health shall establish and recommend thresholds and rates for environmental conditions.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2920
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Senate Resolution Urging State Agencies To Expand Access To Retirement Advice And Guidance For Rhode Island State Employees To Ensure A Secure And Dignified Retirement
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2884
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004--HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Requires health insurance commissioner to conduct a review of health insurance benefit mandates, including an analysis of the impact on premium costs, conducted every 5 yrs and report findings and recommendations to governor, senate president and speaker.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2771
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
INSURANCE -- DOMESTIC INSURANCE COMPANIES - Requires insurance companies to settle claims or request additional information within 30 days of receipt of a notice of claim. Failure to comply results in $250/day payable to the insured party.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2925
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Report Pass
4/8/26
Engrossed
4/16/26
Refer
4/17/26
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2849
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
EDUCATION -- TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL PUPILS BEYOND CITY AND TOWN LIMITS - Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2868
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Increases continuing education requirements for physician assistants, removes restrictions of PAs to render charitable care and aid for school and youth programs or cardiac arrest and removes restrictive covenants as to ownership by a PA.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2870
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Engrossed
3/24/26
Refer
3/25/26
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT - Requires any licensed lab performing blood lead analyses of a child under 6 to be certified by the director and said laboratory must perform this test regardless of the child or child’s parent’s ability to pay and at no cost.
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Rhode Island 2026 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S2786
Introduced
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
EDUCATION -- STUDENT COMPUTER DEVICE PRIVACY - Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.