2025 Regular Session

Requires at fault insurance companies to provide to any claimant whose vehicle is damaged in an accident, to provide a vehicle that is comparable to the claimant’s vehicle and that rental charges shall be based on local retail prices.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

JOINT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE CANNABIS CONTROL COMMISSION PROVIDE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ON LEGISLATION TO REGULATE AND LICENSE CANNABINOIDS AND HEMP-DERIVED BEVERAGES (Requests that the Cannabis Control Commission conduct a study on statutory reform and rules and regulations to regulate the sale of hemp THC-infused beverages.)

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Allows for the issuance of Class BV liquor licenses for the properties located at 94 Carpenter Street and 1023 Broad Street, both in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 85% of the fair market value.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Requires the rule adopting agency to send a copy of the certified rule to all members of the general assembly, within twenty (20) days of filing a final rule.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

Makes it an unfair claims practice for insurer to designate a motor vehicle a total loss if the cost to repair motor vehicle to its pre-accident condition is less than 75% to 80% of the fair market value.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Allows for the issuance of a Class B liquor license for the property located at 1039 Douglas Avenue in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

Adds the property of the Pokanoket Management Group, Trustee of the Pokanoket Tribe Land Trust, to the list of property designated for appropriations in lieu of municipal property tax, would concurrently exempt such property from municipal property tax.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

JOINT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE CANNABIS CONTROL COMMISSION PROVIDE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ON LEGISLATION TO REGULATE AND LICENSE CANNABINOIDS AND HEMP-DERIVED BEVERAGES (Authorizes the sale of THC-infused beverages to be regulated by the DBR division of commercial licensing. It also establishes licensing and an endorsement process for wholesale and retail THC-infused beverages.)

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Adds the property of the Pokanoket Management Group, Trustee of the Pokanoket Tribe Land Trust, to the list of property designated for appropriations in lieu of municipal property tax, would concurrently exempt such property from municipal property tax.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Allows Central Falls to exempt the property located at 913-915 Dexter Street, AP 7, Lot 156 from the law that prohibits any proposed retailers’ license of any class located within two hundred feet (200') of the premises of a school or place of worship.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Includes police officers to fire fighters who are unable to perform duties as a result of heart disease, stroke or hypertension to be presumed to have suffered an in-the-line-of-duty disability, unless contrary evidence is presented.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

JOINT RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A STATEWIDE MAIN STREET COORDINATING PROGRAM (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $500,000 for the formal establishment of “Main Street Rhode Island”.)

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal § 8-4.1-6 regarding additional credit for a master's degree.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Makes the provisions of §§ 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinance to the contrary.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Provides that any disaster response worker shall, in the course of their duties, be considered a state employee and be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Provides that when a registrant voluntarily cancels the registrant's motor vehicle registration, that person receives a credit for the time remaining on the original registration to be applied to a future registration.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Increases the maximum number of voters that a polling place can accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 and provide for existing polling places that exceed the maximum number of voters, not be required to be changed until the next decennial redistricting.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers.

Sponsor: Brian Kennedy

Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion, as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding political or religious matters.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Expands the definition of "employee," and clarifies that the board may defer a pending unfair labor practice charge to allow for the grievance and arbitration process to move forward pursuant to the charging parties collective bargaining agreement.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Provides that architects and other authorized disaster response workers, in the course of performing their duties, be entitled to all rights in like manner as state employees.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom."

Sponsor: Brian Kennedy

Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calendar year.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

DMV to provide credit for portions of unused voluntarily cancelled vehicle registrations.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Makes numerous technical corrections related to insurance, provides a definition for "cybersecurity insurance", and would repeal the chapter relating to reciprocal exchanges and interinsurers.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Repeals a provision of the minimum prepaid special motor vehicle registration plate orders law that was set to expire on December 31, 2025.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

This act would repeal the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Provides for the sale and regulation of pet insurance.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Crime gun ballistic evidence to be submitted to NIBIN.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.

Sponsor: Jason Knight

This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calendar year.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the administration of all forms of influenza immunizations including COVID-19 to individuals over the age of 3 years pursuant to a valid prescription or prescriber approved protocol.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Establishes that a renewable energy resource shall pay $5.00 per kilowatt of alternating current nameplate capacity for tangible property and $3.50 per kilowatt of alternating nameplate capacity for real property.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity.

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

Makes technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the law revision office.

Sponsor: Christopher Blazejewski

Repeals a provision of the minimum prepaid special motor vehicle registration plate orders law that was set to expire on December 31, 2025.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Provides standards for developing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information.

Sponsor: Brian Kennedy

Provides for the sale and regulation of pet insurance policies and their contents and provisions.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Establishes that a renewable energy resource shall pay $5.00 per kilowatt of alternating current nameplate capacity for tangible property and $3.50 per kilowatt of alternating nameplate capacity for real property.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Amends the provisions under which a city or town may exceed the maximum levy for the assessment of local taxes.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Provides that charitable organizations with a gross income of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or less can meet the required reporting and records requirements by providing either an IRS Form 900 or other approved financial statements.

Sponsor: Justine Caldwell

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WOONSOCKET

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Authorizes the town of Smithfield to establish a juvenile hearing board.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Adopts a new tax classification system for the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Amends several definitions relating to low- or moderate-income housing as well as the procedure for the approval of low- or moderate-income housing.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Grants the family court jurisdiction to make findings for special immigrant juvenile status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors/petitioners under 21 years of age.

Sponsor: Jose Batista

ESTABLISHING THE BURRILLVILLE LAND TRUST

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Authorizes the town of Smithfield to establish a juvenile hearing board.

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

Provides for the establishment and operation of an electronic permitting platform for all state and local permitting.

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Grants Rhode Island's family court jurisdiction to make findings for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors under twenty-one (21) years.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Provides that advertising goods that don't include a price referencing all mandatory fees and charges shall be a deceptive trade practice.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Amends the provisions under which a city or town may exceed the maximum levy for the assessment of local taxes.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

Provides that the New Shoreham water district be required to provide water service to only its designated service areas.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Defines Class 5 property to include the commercial portion of mixed use properties and fix the tax rate for Class 3 property at thirty-eight dollars and 33 cents ($38.33) per one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

Adds an additional purpose to the standard provisions list that a zoning ordinance is required to address.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Adopts a new tax classification system for the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires the board of regents to adopt support and intervention strategies consistent with Comprehensive Education Strategy and SALT in one district at a time.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

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.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

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.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Allows the town council of Coventry to make exemptions from taxation on real and personal property that has undergone environmental remediation. This act is subject to conditions as provided in this section.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Protects against discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs and activities, even if there is a change in the federal law.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

ESTABLISHING THE BURRILLVILLE LAND TRUST

Sponsor: David Place

Authorizes the town of Glocester to levy a supplemental tax, by voter referendum, that exceeds the current tax cap by three percent (3%) for fiscal year 2026, to fund school operations and avoid the loss of critical town services.

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Requires employer, at the start of employment, furnish to their employees a written notice containing employment information relative to wages, rates of pay, allowances, benefits, deductions from pay, and identifying information relative to the employer.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles."

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Provides that municipal water supply entities, including New Shoreham, be required to provide water service to only its designated service areas.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Provides protection from and prevent the unethical, improper conduct and the collection of fees by, anyone advising or assisting a veteran filing a claim for disability benefits with the Department of Veterans Affairs except as authorized by federal law.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Amends the definition of “hobby breeder” to limit the sale or offering for sale to no more than two (2) litters of dogs or cats, or a combination thereof, in a three hundred and sixty-five (365) day period.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for behavioral analysts.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Grants the director of the department of health the authority to approve or deny any applications for professional licensure pending before certain boards of licensure that have been unable to establish a quorum for 30 business days.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Provides extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper, recycling of beverage containers, and provides general provisions for oversight of single-stage producer organizations.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Mandates cosmetic medical procedures be performed by a physician, PA, APRN, or delegated to a qualified non-physician, non-PA or non-APRN under the supervision of a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Establishes the Rhode Island Anti-Bid-Rigging Act.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless an identified problem exists or fraud or misrepresentation is suspected.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Grants the director of the department of health the authority to approve or deny any applications for professional licensure pending before certain boards of licensure that have been unable to establish a quorum for 30 business days.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for behavioral analysts.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Allows the two (2) gaming facilities in the state to livestream images of gaming-related activities to one or more external jurisdictions for the purpose of facilitating external game play activities in external jurisdictions where gaming is permitted.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Amends the definition of “hobby breeder” to limit the sale or offering for sale to no more than two (2) litters of dogs or cats, or a combination thereof, in a three hundred and sixty-five (365) day period.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.

Sponsor: Edith Ajello

Amends the definition of affordable housing to create separate categories for housing using private or state financing as opposed to financing from the federal government.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

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.

Sponsor: John Burke

Amends the composition of the building code standards committee and would make several technical amendments relative to the building code office and would establish a state building code office within the office of state fire marshal.

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

Removes the sunset provision of all statutory law requiring coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Authorizes pharmacists to dispense a one-time refill, for up to one hundred days under certain specified conditions.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Creates the department of housing land bank program to allow for the deposit of title to real estate assets for the purpose of developing residential housing.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to eligible individuals enrolled as plan beneficiaries.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Establishes a program operated by the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation called the "housing land bank" to create affordable housing in RI with the authority to buy, receive, and hold real property for housing development.

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Provides a procedure for parking modifications near shoreline rights of way.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Authorizes the establishment of a RI housing champion designation program. This program would make qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including discretionary state infrastructure funds, as available.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Protects 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.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Authorizes the establishment of a Rhode Island housing champion designation program and makes qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including discretionary state infrastructure funds, as available.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this chapter.

Sponsor: Edith Ajello

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE RETURN OF CENTRAL FALLS SCHOOLS TO LOCAL GOVERNANCE (Creates a seven (7) member joint legislative commission to study and prepare a report on the return of Central Falls schools to local governance.)

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Increases the landing fee for the town of Narragansett from fifty cents ($.50) to one dollar ($1.00).

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Allows the town council of New Shoreham to adopt a tax classification plan in accordance with the provisions of this section.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

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.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Permit the town of East Greenwich to deny issuance or renewal of licenses or permits for properties on which the taxes and/or assessments are in arrears.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Requires all school buses be equipped with video monitoring system.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Provides that original power wheelchair equipment manufacturers would be required to provide to independent service providers repair information and tools to maintain and repair original power wheelchair equipment.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach in excess of 90 days. The sunset provision is extended from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employment.

Sponsor: John Edwards

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.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

Authorizes the town of Smithfield to provide a tax credit for any person with paraplegia and who by reason of the paraplegic disability requires specially adapted housing.

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

Requires that the basic education program data collection information for students that attend career and technical education schools be charged to the receiving school district and not the sending school district.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Requires every college in RI to train staff members in the student residential department, including RAs, to administer of opioid antagonists with protection from liability and prosecution.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Eliminates one of two (2) conflicting versions of the science and technology advisory council authorizing statute, clarifying the structure of the council.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Eliminates the "until June 30, 2025" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits.

Sponsor: John Burke

Grants the town council of the town of Charlestown the authority to enact a homestead exemption ordinance.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of health care services, products, or devices.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.

Sponsor: John Burke

Allows the town council of New Shoreham to adopt a tax classification plan in accordance with the provisions of this section, to be applicable to taxes on or after the assessment date of December 31, 2025.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Permit the town of East Greenwich to deny issuance or renewal of licenses or permits for properties on which the taxes and/or assessments are in arrears.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Prohibits casualty insurers from assessing any premium surcharge or penalty against an insured solely for inquiring about the terms of the insured's policy.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Requires that the basic education program data collection information for students that attend career and technical education schools be charged to the receiving school district and not the sending school district.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Increases the taxable wage base for TDI claims from $38,000 to $100,000 or the annual earnings needed by an individual to qualify for the maximum weekly benefit amount and the maximum duration under chapters 39 through 41 of this title.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of health care services, products, or devices.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

Increases the landing fee for the town of New Shoreham from fifty cents ($.50) to one dollar ($1.00).

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Allows for the issuance of a Class BV liquor license for the property located at 865 Westminster Street in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Makes technical amendments to the RI life science hub regarding the terms of the directors, advisory committees, powers, disposition of hub assets upon termination, and tax status as a governmental unit which is a separate legal entity from the state.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals."

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Allows Daniel Vaca to join Kaley Erin O’Connor and James John Pawelski in marriage on or about October 12, 2025, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Adds "space force" to many sections of the general laws, listing of military branches.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

Updates public records administration act, modifies records control schedule, designates records officer, establishes procedures for retention of records. Provides administrator submit yearly reports, establishes public reporting compliance.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Ensures that the department of housing is able to access the full calendar year worth of housing choice voucher data for the annual report required by this section and amends the content of the information required to be submitted in the annual report.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires certified athletic trainers to be trained in the administration of epinephrine auto-injectors (epi-pens) and would require such professionals to be equipped with the medication while performing professional activities.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Permits the division of unclaimed property within the office of the general treasurer to accept miscellaneous intangible property belonging to Rhode Island residents.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests for conditions for which there is a medical benefit to the early detection and treatment of the disorder.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.

Sponsor: Karen Alzate

Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Clarifies roles and regulatory authority for the administration of the program involving the repurposing of vacant schools for housing, extends the deadline for conducting feasibility studies and expands access to all municipalities.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Makes technical amendments to the RI life science hub regarding the terms of the directors, advisory committees, powers, disposition of hub assets upon termination, and tax status as a governmental unit which is a separate legal entity from the state.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

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.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Provides tax credits or the equivalent assessment dollars to veterans, gold star parents, visually impaired persons and the elderly.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.

Sponsor: Edith Ajello

Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at sixteen dollars ($16) per hour, 2027 at seventeen dollars ($17) per hour.

Sponsor: John Burke

Creates a new commercial fishing license for invasive green crabs for Rhode Island residents for twenty-five dollars ($25) annually.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

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.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular and certified mail.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Provides technical and other corrections to various general laws relating to taxation.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Requires any state agency that prints more than fifty (50) copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use state-owned or operated print shop capable of processing the material.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Directs RIHousing to work with stakeholders to investigate and determine ways to assist an incorporated homeowners' association to exercise rights to purchase leased land.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Prohibits an individual who is licensed as both a Rhode Island real estate agent and mortgage loan originator to be compensated for both the sale of the property and the origination or referral of the loan in securing the property.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Provides that the commissioner of elementary and secondary education directs all local education agencies to select one of the identified high-quality curricula and materials for science and technology no later than June 30, 2026.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Prohibits an individual who is licensed as both a Rhode Island real estate agent and mortgage loan originator to be compensated for both the sale of the property and the origination or referral of the loan in securing the property.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Codac, Inc., a Rhode Island nonprofit domestic corporation, located at 45 Royal Little Drive in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular and certified mail.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

Requires certified athletic trainers to be trained in the administration of epinephrine auto-injectors (epi-pens) and would require such professionals to be equipped with the medication while performing professional activities.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Creates a process for licensure/oversight by DBR over the practices/procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and regulation of fees.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Allows for the procurement of nuclear power.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Allows for the procurement of nuclear power.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Requires municipalities to maintain and update a list of CRMC designated rights-of-way to tidal areas in their municipality.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Increases the public utilities reserve fund cap and the cap on expenses relating to the public utilities commission and the division of public utilities and carriers representing the state before federal agencies.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.

Sponsor: David Bennett

Renames the East Bay Bike Path Bridge, located in the Town of Warren, the Cpl. Richard C. Brule Bridge.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Clarifies several workers' compensation court authority for injuries to sworn employees (police/fire).

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and the regulating of fees.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Renames the East Bay Bike Path Bridge, located in the Town of Warren, the Cpl. Richard C. Brule Bridge.

Sponsor: Jason Knight

Allows foreign trained physicians limited license to practice in Rhode Island under specific conditions.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING DR. ROSEMARY A. COSTIGAN, PH.D., RN, ON HER SELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present or the juvenile and their parents have waived their presence.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Establishes a pilot program for a virtual reality learning platform to improve math skills for grades 6 through 12 STEM education.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING DR. ROSEMARY A. COSTIGAN, PH.D., RN, ON HER SELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publication once time in newspaper of general circulation.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

Defines the apportionment of financial responsibilities for expenses and improvements to the real property of the life estate between the life tenant and remainder man.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Requires at fault insurance companies to provide to any claimant whose vehicle is damaged in an accident, to provide a vehicle that is comparable to the claimant’s vehicle and that rental charges shall be based on local retail prices.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ROGER A. SAVINI

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

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.

Sponsor: Jon Brien

Provides for the sealing of eviction records under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: David Morales

Amends the certain provisions relative to school waste recycling and refuse disposal and requires reports of waste audits by educational entities and reports of program participation by vendors.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Exempts from property taxation, the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.

Sponsor: Edith Ajello

Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 3 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and were chosen during the five years following their selection.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE REPORTING DATE AND AMENDING THE LANGUAGE OF THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY RENEWABLE ENERGY PROGRAMS (Deletes the language "by August 31, 2024" on page 3, line 1, and extend the reporting date of the special legislative commission to study renewable energy programs from February 14, 2025, to February 13, 2026 and said commission expires on June 30, 2026.)

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $1,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND FOOD BANK (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $450,000 to the Rhode Island Food Bank.)

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE OFFICE OF ENERGY RESOURCES TO UNDERTAKE A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF BENCHMARKING PROGRAMS FOR MUNICIPAL AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS GREATER THAN 25,000 SQUARE FEET

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Increases rates paid for licensed childcare centers to meet the federal equal access benchmark, implement a new differential bonus rate for infants under age 18 months and adopt fair payment practices consistent with the federal rules.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Provides that licensed independent clinical social workers be able to enroll and bill Medicaid directly for covered services provided to adults with Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $500,000 TO THE UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND FOR THE 2-1-1 HUMAN SERVICES HOTLINE (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $500,000 to the United Way of Rhode Island to provide operational support for the 2-1-1 system.)

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Establishes a restricted receipt account, known as the “988 Call Center Fund,” to be held and administered by the state to support the 988 call center budget.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Marie Hopkins

Authorizes the town of Scituate to issue a total of three (3) Class A liquor licenses.

Sponsor: Robert Quattrocchi

Revises sections of the uniform controlled substances act to remove specific opioid dosage requirements, revises the uniform controlled substances act in accordance with current standards of professional practice and would repeal chapter 37.4 of title 5.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care information.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Reduces the time for expungements to three (3) years for a single misdemeanor and five (5) years for felonies and multiple misdemeanors.

Sponsor: Cherie Cruz

Mandates municipalities to participate in the parking mobility app program where individuals may submit photos on the app of vehicles that are parked in spaces designated for individuals with disabilities and the violator may be cited and fined.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Makes all causes of action based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child not subject to any statute of limitations whether the claim has lapsed or was previously time-barred.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Requires that beginning January l, 2027, all contractors supervising structural remodeling or building new residential structures with one to four (4) family dwelling units be licensed by the contractors' registration and licensing board.

Sponsor: Charlene Lima

Details each of those limited emergency circumstances where a registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurses, may safely administer sedation, such as critical life-saving or emergency situations where there is an imminent threat to life or limb.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Provides an 8% tax rate for those properties that are encumbered by a deed restriction for low-income housing set at 80% or 60% of adjusted median income established by HUD.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF LEO'S SERVICE CENTER, INC.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CENTRAL FALLS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $15,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND/OR OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CREATION OF A STATEWIDE WHOLE-HOME REPAIRS PROGRAM (Creates 10-member commission to study and provide recommendations for the creation of a statewide whole-home repairs program, and who would report back to the Speaker of the House by January 5, 2026, and would expire on March 5, 2026.)

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CENTRAL FALLS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $15,000,000 BONDS, NOTES AND/OR OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONGRATULATIONS

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Provides that the tax rate for Class 1 and Class 2 property be uniform and set to the same percentage.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING "JUNETEENTH NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY" ON JUNE 19, 2025

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.

Sponsor: Jason Knight

Restructures the Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increases its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and reallocates the percentage of the funds for housing, conservation and other goals.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Permits those individuals convicted of multiple felonies and misdemeanors to have their records expunged and provide criteria for the court to consider in determining whether the person is of good moral character.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONGRATULATIONS

Sponsor: Christopher Blazejewski

Increases the role of the DMV in the voter registration and address verification process, by establishing very specific obligations and responsibilities that must be followed before offering an individual an application to register to vote.

Sponsor: Mary Messier

Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

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.

Sponsor: John Burke

Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Requires every individual or group health insurance contract, plan, or policy to provide coverage for at least one type of buprenorphine for each form of administration.

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

Prohibits payments in lieu of pension benefits to person employed more than ninety (90) days.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Reduces the cigarette tax imposed by 75% for any modified risk tobacco product as defined in § 21 U.S.C. 387 k as a tobacco product sold/distributed to reduce the harm/risk of tobacco-related disease associated with commercially marketed tobacco products.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Limits the mandatory rental registry to properties constructed prior to 1978, and further push out the effective date of registration to September 1, 2025, with the penalty clause becoming effective as of October 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Allows the commissioners of the water and sewer commission for the town of Jamestown to limit its public water system's obligation to supply water only within designated and described area as opposed to the entire land area of the town.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Allows providers of services under this section to visit the houses of individuals with special needs or sensory-related disorders or differences in order to provide haircuts or hairdressing services.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Permits the town of Little Compton a one-year levy cap for fiscal year 2026 not to exceed twelve percent (12%).

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the future.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

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.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

IN ACCORDANCE WITH RHODE ISLAND GENERAL LAWS SECTION 16-7-44 APPROVING THE ISSUANCE OF $10,400,000 BONDS BY THE TOWN OF NEW SHOREHAM TO FINANCE ADDITIONS, RENOVATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS TO SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE TOWN INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BONDS AND NOTES ISSUED PURSUANT TO FINANCING AGREEMENTS WITH THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Allows for the issuance of a Class T liquor license by the town of Jamestown.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the future.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Makes a technical amendment to correctly reference a section of general law that allows for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Rhode Island organ transplant fund.

Sponsor: Alex Marszalkowski

Removes the requirement that the applicant for a Bronze Star Medal license plate pay a registration fee or transfer charge.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

Removes the requirement that applicants for a Bronze Star Medal license plate, pay a registration fee or transfer charge.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Requires nonprofit, as a condition for requesting state funds from the general assembly, to submit & post on their website, a list of10 of their highest paid director, officer & employee salaries & any forms of compensation provided to those individuals.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WARWICK TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $50,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, DEMOLITION, ARCHITECTURAL COSTS, ENGINEERING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

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.

Sponsor: John Burke

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.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

IN ACCORDANCE WITH RHODE ISLAND GENERAL LAWS SECTION 16-7-44 APPROVING THE ISSUANCE OF $10,400,000 BONDS BY THE TOWN OF NEW SHOREHAM TO FINANCE ADDITIONS, RENOVATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS TO SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE TOWN INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BONDS AND NOTES ISSUED PURSUANT TO FINANCING AGREEMENTS WITH THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDING CORPORATION

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Amends the current law so that if a magistrate dies during active service, while eligible for retirement under ERSRI, their surviving spouse or domestic partner would receive "ERSRI option #1 – 100% survivor option".

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Jon Brien

Establishes a reimbursement system for a municipalities cost of training public safety personnel when they are hired by a different municipality or public safety agency within Rhode Island within 3 years of receiving the public safety training.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Establishes a system of electronic registration and titling of motor vehicles. Rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter would be promulgated by the administrator of the division of motor vehicles.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

Makes several amendments to provide for an online nomination paper portal for election nomination papers.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

Amends chapter 80 of the public laws of 1965 with respect to the composition of the regional district school building committee, apportionment of construction and operating costs and amendments to the agreement.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING WARWICK POLICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF COLONEL BRADFORD CONNOR ON HIS FORTHCOMING RETIREMENT ON JUNE 29, 2025, AFTER MORE THAN 27 YEARS OF EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE CITY OF WARWICK

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

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.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Reduces the time, from three (3) years to one year, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Prohibits prior authorization or a step therapy protocol for the prescription of a nonpreferred medication on their drug formulary used to assess or treat an enrollee's bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or schizotypal.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Allows members of the retirement system who served in the national guard or reserves and qualify as veterans, to purchase retirement service credits based on their years of service in the National guard or reserves.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Requires the department of elementary and secondary education and DOH to adopt policies, rules and regulations for the administration of seizure rescue medications for children who have been medically identified as having epilepsy/seizure disorder.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability or as evidence of an admission.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING JUNE 12TH OF 2025, TO BE "COX IMPACT DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Ensures public access to lead service lines to determine the existence of lead within the water connection. This act also ensures mitigation measures and replacement lines are consistent with the current version of 40 C.C.R. 141 Subpart I.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING FRANK J. KARPINSKI ON HIS RETIREMENT AFTER THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF HONORABLE SERVICE TO THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, TO THE STATE’S ACTIVE AND RETIRED PUBLIC SERVANTS, AND TO THE OFFICE OF THE GENERAL TREASURER

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING AND HONORING THE 240TH BRISTOL FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Requires that an individual's caregiver be present when healthcare decisions are discussed with the hospice team. It would also prevent a denial of home hospice care because of age or income.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2026, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

TOWNS AND CITIES -- HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE -- NOTICE OF

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING AND CELEBRATING JUNE 14, 2025 AS "NATIONAL FLAG DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

HOUSE RESOLUTION URGING THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE TO FOLLOW THE FIRST SOURCE HIRING ORDINANCE MANDATES

Sponsor: David Morales

Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Provides that the cost of maintaining and repairing or restoring an easement or right-of-way shall be shared by each owner of a benefited property and their costs shall be determined by and commensurate with the municipal appraisal of each property.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Amends the heading of § 11-47-60.1 to include the words "Dillon's Law."

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

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.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Creates the healthcare worker platform act that requires platforms offering healthcare shifts to register with the Rhode Island department of health by June 1, 2026, while exempting them from being classified as nursing service agencies.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Provides that advanced practice registered nurses have the same immunity from liability as physicians and surgeons.

Sponsor: David Bennett

Defines squatter as a person occupying a dwelling unit who is not authorized by the property owner, landlord or tenant to occupy the unit and provides remedies for property owner including police assistance to remove a squatter.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program. Requires the school district of origin where the student was last registered to bear this responsibility.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Provides for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Meals on Wheels Inc. Fund commencing with tax year 2025.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 250TH BIRTHDAY OF THE U.S. ARMY

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

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.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS as of January 1, 2027.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

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.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

2022) (Implements technical corrections to the transition rules for transactions governed by 2024 Public Laws Chapters 65 and 66 regarding security interests in emerging technologies.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING "WORLD REFUGEE DAY" AND RECOGNIZING THE WORK OF DORCAS INTERNATIONAL OF PROVIDENCE ON JUNE 20TH OF 2025, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS as of January 1, 2027.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Requires all certified independent or district charter schools upon application for a renewal of said charter or an application for a new charter school to provide a union neutrality clause in the charter.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Amends the Identity Theft Protection Act by eliminating current definitions and establishing new definitions. This act also raises the penalty provisions for violations.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING AND THANKING ANDREW SCHIFF ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Makes offenses against gift card holders subject to the penalties for larceny.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Applies the 7% sales tax to sales of liquor and wine.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Allows the collection of solid waste and recycling between the hours of seven o’clock (7:00) am and three o’clock (3:00) am seven days a week. It would also ban the use of mobile waste compaction technology for recycling.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

Clarifies the tax treatment of qualifying low-income housing.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Requires all lifeguards, and park rangers, to be trained in administering opioid antagonists, and would require all public beaches to keep available a minimum of four doses of opioid antagonist.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Requires all lifeguards, and park and forest rangers, who work on a full time basis at any public beach or facility to be trained in administering opioid antagonists.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Implements a thirty (30) day waiting period following the issuance of a learners permit and the waiting period must expire before the person is permitted to take the road test in order to obtain a full license.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF DOLORES MARY DUPRE

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING AUGUST 15, 2025 AS THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOREAN DAY OF INDEPENDENCE AND 2025 AS THE 50TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONDOLENCES

Sponsor: Christopher Blazejewski

SENATE RESOLUTION JOYOUSLY CELEBRATING AND COMMEMORATING JUNE OF 2025, AS "PRIDE MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING AND ACKNOWLEDGING JUNE OF 2025 AS "PORTUGUESE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center located in the city of Pawtucket.

Sponsor: Lori Urso

Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Allows the dependents of a National Guard member, who is in good standing, to be eligible for tuition assistance.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

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.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparisons of wages/hourly conditions of employment in similarly skilled jobs.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Amends provisions related to the maximum project credit allowed under the rebuild Rhode Island tax credit for certain qualified development projects.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Allows retired state employees who worked for the unified judicial system as certified or qualified court interpreters to be employed or reemployed for a limited period in a given year.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Prohibits any city, town, quasi-municipal corporation or public corporation from assessing any existing agricultural operation or agricultural land for the extension of any water utilities past the property and from imposing any connection fee.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Amends Pawtucket property tax classification system.

Sponsor: Mary Messier

Authorizes municipalities to impose a ticket tax on ticket sales for venues large enough to hold at least eight hundred (800) patrons, seated, of seven percent (7%) per ticket. The tax shall be redistributed to the locality where the venue is located.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Imposes a seventy-five cent (0.75) surcharge on fares charged by rideshare companies as well as an account to benefit RIPTA from the payment of sales taxes collected from rideshares.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Clarifies the role of a corporation electing to be governed as a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

On 7/1/2026, renewal of any existing sports wagering vendor contract by state lottery ceases. Prior to expiration, the lottery shall invite vendors to submit applications for sports wagering awarding not less than 2 but not more than 5 contracts.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Permits reimbursement for dental hygienist's from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Allows the town of Tiverton to apply different tax rates to all classes of property.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Prohibits applications for a comprehensive permit under the Rhode Island comprehensive planning and land use regulation act in any watershed overlay protection district located in the town of Tiverton.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Prohibits applications filed in the town of Tiverton, for comprehensive permit projects, for low and moderate income housing, to include accessory dwelling units.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Permits Tiverton to require two parking space for each studio, one-bedroom, or two-bedroom low- or moderate-income housing units upon the determination that limited or no local public transportation or off-street parking availability near these units.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Allows the town of Tiverton, with an aggregate of five hundred (500) or more units proposed in a comprehensive permit project, to enact a short-term emergency moratorium until the permit laws are amended.

Sponsor: John Edwards

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $10,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to the Rhode Island Foundation, to generate funds to support public education.)

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Allows the town of Tiverton to determine its density bonuses based upon its underlying zoning.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Includes manufactured homes on leased land under a long-term lease in excess of thirty (30) years at the time of enrollment within the classification of affordable housing.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Restates the UTGR Master Contract and the Twin River-Tiverton Master Contract and would consolidate the marketing program of each into the Consolidated Marketing Program.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

HOUSE RESOLUTION DECLARING JUNE 3RD OF 2025, AS "PHARMACY ADVOCACY DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING GRATITUDE TO UNITED STATES ARMY BRIGADIER GENERAL JACK HAMMOND (RETIRED) FOR FOUNDING HOME BASE NATIONAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND BRAIN INJURIES, WHICH PROVIDES MUCH-NEEDED SERVICES TO VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES AT NO COST

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health needs of children and youth ages 2 to 21. DCYF to oversee implementation of the program.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Creates a new law to address the issue of "sexual harassment" involving those individuals that are actively involved in legislative business.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Includes payment of social security benefits to the modification reducing federal adjusted gross income on personal income taxes.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Provides that a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula.

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) of social security income for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $100,000 FOR THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION ON PREJUDICE AND BIAS (This resolution would appropriate the sum of $100,000 to the Rhode Island Commission on Prejudice and Bias.)

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Prohibits healthcare providers and health plans from denying the payment of a medical bill, solely because the bill may have arisen from a third-party claim.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $2,300,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (DEM) TO TRANSPLANT QUAHOGS INTO NARRAGNSETT BAY AND ESTABLISH A SHELLFISH HATCHERY PROGRAM (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $2,300,000 to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management for the transplantation of quahogs and the establishment of a shellfish hatchery program.)

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler, prescription device, or prescription equipment to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

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.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING JOSEPH HICKS ON WINNING THE 2024 ATA (AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION) NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVING CHAMPIONSHIP (TDC) 4-AXLE TRACTOR TRAILER CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

SENATE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE 2025 LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY'S "LIGHT THE NIGHT WALK" EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Creates the Old Growth Forest Protection Act to provide protection for state-owned forestland in their natural state prohibiting extractive logging and clearcutting in any forest on state-owned land.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Allows school committees to add item(s) not appearing in published notice to their agendas for purposes of discussion only if the revised agenda is filed with the secretary of state and posted on district website at least 48 hrs in advance of the meeting.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Allows preferred sites to be developed without being subject to the cap or rate reduction in the net metering statute.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Allows emergency preliminary certificates for teaching to be issued for up to a total of five (5) school years.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Amos House, provided it remains a qualified tax-exempt corporation pursuant to §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Tiverton Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 5, 2024.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Friends of Little Compton Wellness Center, Inc.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Tiverton Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of Tiverton on November 5, 2024.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand eight hundred pounds (8,800 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE EAST GREENWICH/TOLL GATE CO-OP BOYS ICE HOCKEY TEAM ON WINNING THE 2024-2025 DIVISION II ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Imposes a wealth tax on Rhode Island individuals and entities at a rate of one percent (1%) of worldwide wealth.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Places a moratorium on net metering contracts, subsidies for heat pumps and long-term contracts for the purchasing of solar or wind energy.

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Requires the auditor general to conduct performance audits of all state agencies.

Sponsor: Thomas Paolino

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONGRATULATIONS

Sponsor: Christopher Blazejewski

Removes the mandatory certification for an individual 16 years or older who was found delinquent for having committed 2 offenses after the age of 16 which would render the person subject to an indictment if the person was an adult.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Authorizes municipalities to impose a ticket tax on ticket sales for venues large enough to hold at least eight hundred (800) patrons, seated, of two dollars ($2) per ticket. The tax shall be redistributed to the locality where the venue is located.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Provides a full property tax exemption for a veteran’s real property used as the veteran's primary residence.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Funds the state crime victim compensation program through an additional one dollar ($1.00) fine on traffic violations, exclusive of violations related to the parking of vehicles.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN IN STATE CARE

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Liquor licenses in Westerly required to have liability insurance.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Mandates that EOHHS assemble a network of equity zones where local multisector groups of nonprofits, service providers, advocates, community members, state agencies, and municipalities can address social factors of health at a local level.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Amends the Identity Theft Protection Act by eliminating current definitions and establishing new definitions. This act also raises the penalty provisions for violations.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 27, 2025, AS "ALS AWARENESS DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $90,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO SUPPORT PHYSICIAN REIMBURSEMENT RATE INCREASES IN THE RHODE ISLAND MEDICAID PROGRAM (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $90,000,000 to the Rhode Island executive office of health and human services to be invested in increasing reimbursement rates for all physicians and advanced practice providers.)

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires the EOHHS to amend the state Medicaid plan and secure sufficient state general revenue to increase Medicaid payment rates to an amount equal to one hundred thirty percent (130%) of Medicare rates for outpatient clinical pediatric services.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Provides penalties for second and subsequent violations of installing and possessing a vehicle with sun screening materials in violation of this section.

Sponsor: John Burke

SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF PAUL J. FOX, JR.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Requires every school bus, including buses used exclusively for to transport students receiving special education, to be equipped with a live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring system and retractable stop sign.

Sponsor: Justine Caldwell

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY OF 2025, AS "BRAIN CANCER AND TUMOR AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Requires the Rhode Island general assembly to address its legislation with attention to equity and the impact its legislation will have on Rhode Island's diverse and various communities.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Prohibits total education aid paid to any local education agency from being reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous fiscal year.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Requires the department of human services to provide childcare assistance to families, including those served through DCYF, who meet the requirements of a protective services category as defined in CFR 98.20 (a)(3)(ii).

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for students and teachers, with eligibility requirements and donations.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other interventions where there is a clinical need.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will be 50% by the core instruction per-pupil amount.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE MEDICAID SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION WAIVER REQUESTS AND RENEWALS -- RHODE ISLAND MEDICAID REFORM ACT OF 2008 (Joint resolution to approve an amendment to the Medicaid section 1115 demonstration waiver requests and renewals.)

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Requires the town of Tiverton to require a minimum number of affordable housing units if there is less than ten percent (10%) of affordable housing in the town.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Provides that comprehensive permit projects in Tiverton, involving property not connected to either public water or sewer or both, and for which the property is considered hydric said land be excluded from the building land calculation.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Allows the town of Tiverton to determine its density bonuses based upon its underlying zoning.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Requires any person who applies to rent or purchase a residence located in Town of Tiverton which qualifies as low and moderate income housing, shall require proof of Rhode Island residency or employment by a local, state or federal entity.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Extends time for a party to apply for stay of arbitration to180 days; invalidates any provision that penalizes a party for seeking legal representation; requires arbitrator to provide notice of default to a party for failure to pay fees.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Prohibits applications filed in the town of Tiverton, for comprehensive permit projects, for low and moderate income housing, to include accessory dwelling units.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Requires the Rhode Island housing authority to update the count of affordable housing stock in the town of Tiverton two (2) times per year.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any information concerning a child as the court may require.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Permits the town of Tiverton to require additional testing, to be performed by the developer, to ensure that there is no dewatering or loss of effective recharge to surrounding wells within close proximity of the new well.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Provides that minor subdivisions would include oversized lot subdivisions under certain circumstances and relative to zoning ordinances, permit a modification to allow "neighborhood character-based modifications" under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Cherie Cruz

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.

Sponsor: Mary Messier

Allows the applicant for a land development project to utilize the administrative subdivision process established under 45-23-37 to request approval of a proposed subdivision of an oversized lot.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TEMPLE EMANU-EL

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Establishes a bureau of public protection within the department of attorney general.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

IN AMENDMENT OF PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION A.D. 1942 ENTITLED "INCORPORATE THE WESTERN COVENTRY FIRE DISTRICT"

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Requires the executive office of health and human services to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a state plan amendment for reimbursement for health services in a school.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Amends calculations of interest in civil actions a rate determined by average accepted auction price for last auction of 52 week U.S. treasury bills.

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $118,422 FOR RHODE ISLAND PARENT INFORMATION NETWORK, INC. (RIPIN) (This resolution authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $118,422 for RIPIN to continue the operation of the RIPIN Dual Ombudsman.)

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the federal eligibility benchmark.

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, to be disabled for purposes of Medicaid eligibility.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Prohibits the holding of multiple drivers licenses or identification cards and would change the term "re-constructed salvage" to "rebuilt salvage" for purposes of the Rhode Island salvage law.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

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.

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

Provides that minor subdivisions would include oversized lot subdivisions under certain circumstances and relative to zoning ordinances, permit a modification to allow "neighborhood character-based modifications" under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER AS SUBSTANCE USE RECOVERY AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND CALLING FOR THE END OF STIGMA AND EMPOWERING RECOVERY THROUGH LANGUAGE IN RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY OF 2025, AS "NATIONAL SPEECH - LANGUAGE - HEARING MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $450,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND FOOD BANK (This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $450,000 to the Rhode Island Food Bank.)

Sponsor: David Morales

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 22, 2025, AS "RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER DAY"

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $200,000 TO BE USED FOR INCENTIVES FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES SOLD AT PARTICIPATING BONUS BUCKS OUTLETS IN RHODE ISLAND (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $200,000 for incentives for the Farm Fresh Bonus Bucks Program.)

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $500,000 TO SOJOURNER HOUSE IN RHODE ISLAND (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $500,000 to Sojourner House to support its permanent housing development program that provides safe, secure housing to individuals and families fleeing from dangerous situations.)

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Repeals the act authorizing toll facilities on state roads.

Sponsor: Robert Quattrocchi

Allows for trucks with a gross vehicle weight of eight thousand pounds (8,000 lbs.) or less to have passenger registration license plates.

Sponsor: John Edwards

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $32,594,799 TO THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Appropriates the sum of $32,594,799 to the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.)

Sponsor: Karen Alzate

Establishes a restricted receipt account for the benefit of the Rhode Island public transit authority, funded by sales taxes collected from ride-share companies, which said sales taxes would be exempt from indirect cost recovery provisions.

Sponsor: David Morales

Imposes a wealth tax on Rhode Island individuals and entities at a rate of one percent (1%) of worldwide wealth.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Extends allocation of motor fuel tax to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Fund through 2025. Changes the allocation to 30% total proceeds, including 30% from the one cent per gallon environmental protection fee through 2026 and thereafter.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Submits the state's 2025 capital development program requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling twenty five million dollars ($25,000,000) for approval of the electorate at the general election to be held on November 3, 2026.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Adjusts the motor fuel tax for inflation every two (2) years based on the inflation that has occurred in the previous two (2) years.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Exempts from the sales tax behind-the-meter batteries interconnected with a solar photovoltaic system.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Amends the composition of school bus districts within the state to provide transportation to students in grades kindergarten through 12.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Allows a deduction from federal adjusted gross income for interest payments on outstanding student loans.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Allows school bus drivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut who have a valid CDL license in good standing be exempt from the licensing requirements in Rhode Island to transport school children.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health needs of children and youth ages 2 to 21. DCYF to oversee implementation of the program.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE ROBERT G. SALISBURY

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Clarifies Wavemaker program eligibility to include all full-time Rhode Island medical practitioners.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Caps delinquent tax interest rate at 12%. Prohibits audits beyond 3 years from date of tax filing, 7 years for fraudulent filings, and in no event beyond 10 years from date of filing or required filing date, whichever is later.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Allows RI to opt out of the provisions of DIDMCA exempting out of state lenders from interest rate limits which apply to RI lenders. Prevents evasion of statutory interest rate limits and lending rules for loans made in RI.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Changes annual reporting requirements for the state’s family home-visiting program and also impacts appropriation and spending of funds in order to access maximum federal funding for these programs.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Makes several amendments to the cannabis act relating to applications for licensure, the social equity assistance program and the application of cannabis tax revenue.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Allows communities to increase their local share of hotel tax collection by an additional two percent (2%).

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Establishes the right of a medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service this violates their conscience.

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

Provides that shared living for older adults and adults with disabilities allow individuals to receive care from family caregivers, related or unrelated regardless of whether they are performing other activities, such as power of attorney for individual.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the health insurance coverage through the Rhode Island health benefits exchange.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Defines a “consumer accessible fair market value” for a vehicle valuation figure.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $850,000 FOR NEW BRIDGES FOR HAITIAN SUCCESS (Authorizes the appropriation of $850,000 for New Bridges for Haitian Success for the purpose of residential property acquisition for transitional housing to support immigrants with temporary protected status (TPS) and asylum status.)

Sponsor: David Morales

Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment/fines against co-employees.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

HOUSE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE RECOGNITION OF THE POKANOKET TRIBE AS THE ANCIENT AND ONGOING STEWARDS OF THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND, AND ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR CENTRAL ROLE IN SHAPING THE REGION'S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Exempts the sale of Bitcoin from state income tax, if such sale is valued at less than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Permits a tenant, at the tenant’s expense, to implement energy conservation measures to any dwelling or dwelling unit such as removable weather-stripping around doors and windows.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE TOWN OF LITTLE COMPTON ON THE JOYOUS OCCASION OF ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY DURING 2025

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF "NATIONAL EMS WEEK" ON MAY 18-24, 2025, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

HOUSE RESOLUTION HONORING AND THANKING JAMES R. HOYT ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE WITH THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PAWTUCKET

Sponsor: Mary Messier

SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE TOWN OF LITTLE COMPTON ON THE JOYOUS OCCASION OF ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY DURING 2025

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

SENATE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING "PERIOD POVERTY AWARENESS WEEK" ON MAY 12-18, 2025, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 19TH OF 2025 AS "GREEK AND PONTIC GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING "NATIONAL HOSPITAL WEEK" ON MAY 11TH THROUGH MAY 17TH, 2025, IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING LAO NEW YEAR (PI MAI LAO): A CELEBRATION OF RENEWAL, CULTURE, AND RESILIENCE ON APRIL 14 – APRIL 16, 2025

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Authorizes the city of Central Falls, via home rule charter or city ordinance, to create a school board with all powers and duties thereto, to govern the Central Falls school district.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Sponsor: Richard Fascia

Allows unpaid fines for violations of municipal ordinances to be recorded as alien in the land records, where the violating real property is located. The lien would be added to amount of real estate taxes owed on the property at issue.

Sponsor: John Burke

Provides funding to establish a dual language program within the department of elementary and secondary education. It also describe how to implement he Support and Access to Bilingual Education “SABE Act” for all Local Education Agencies “LEA” recipients.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Provides that the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with a workgroup composed of various stakeholders, develop a funding formula for school districts sending students to career and technical programs outside their district.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to propose, by October 1, 2025, funding alternatives to increase state aid for districts with high poverty, with recommendations on funding levels and their impacts.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Mandates additional state education funding for the mental and behavioral health of students equal to 2% of the district’s total expenditures, and require those funds be used to hire staff such as school social workers, and behavioral specialists.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Provides that the cost of maintaining and repairing or restoring an easement or right-of-way shall be shared by each owner of a benefited property and their costs shall be determined by and commensurate with the municipal appraisal of each property.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Nullifies the department of elementary and secondary education recommendation that the turnaround plan for Providence public schools be continued.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Revises the calculation for the student success factor in the education-aid formula by adding an additional multiplier.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Authorizes a host city or town to impose a two percent (2%) tax on the endowment of a private institution of higher education that is in excess of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000), to be used only for the host public school district.

Sponsor: David Morales

Amend the calculation of state funding provided to local education agencies for special education services.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $400,000 TO THE COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL (CRMC) FOR FUNDING OF URI'S COASTAL RESOURCES CENTER (CRC) STORMTOOLS, CHAMP ANALYSIS, AND MYCOAST (This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $400,000 to the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council for the continuation of STORMTOOLS, CHAMP, and MyCoast.)

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Allows for a tenant to withhold payment of rent, and deposit the rent accruing into an escrow bearing account, upon the issuance of a second notice of violation by an enforcing officer for any state or local minimum housing code enforcement agency.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Provides that no new network charter school application shall be granted.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Allows the Providence public School district by reason of a substantial decrease of pupil population within its school system, to suspend teachers in numbers necessitated by the decrease in pupil population and provide a process for any suspensions.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Requires grocery stores to specifically limit the number of self-service checkout units to six (6) units per location. The consumer protection unit of the department of attorney general would have authority to enforce these restrictions.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Defines suitable person and establishes reasons for applying for carry permit, establishes what information is required on applications, establishes appeal process if application denied and provides that records are not public.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Provides that only a mayor or town administrator could be a voting member of the board of directors or trustees for a mayoral academy.

Sponsor: Ryan Pearson

Increases sentences for carrying a stolen firearm when committing a crime of violence and for possessing a stolen firearm. Requires that a person convicted of these offenses serve a period of time in which they would not be eligible for parole/ probation.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Permits Rhode Island residents, 21 years of age or older, to carry a concealed handgun, without a permit.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Prohibits the sale or possession of firearm silencers unless the person complies with federal law in the sale, possession and use.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Increases the federal adjusted gross income threshold for modification for taxable social security income. Amends references to federal adjusted gross income as pertains to modification of taxable retirement income from certain pension plans or annuities.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

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.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MAY OF 2025, AS "ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

HOUSE RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND TAIWAN WHILE SUPPORTING ENHANCED BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN AND TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Sponsor: Brian Kennedy

Establishes the first time home buyer savings program act. Allows modifications to federal adjusted gross income for $50,000 in contributions and $150,000 of interest and dividends included in federal adjusted gross income.

Sponsor: Brian Newberry

Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the interlock systems.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Exempts from the sales and use tax, the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Provides that all extended benefits offered by DCYF to foster children shall be extended to children placed in guardianship.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program for all children in the care and custody of the state.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within the community.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Allows a clinical laboratory, that is incorporated in the State of Rhode Island, to analyze blood samples, from children under the age of six (6) years, for blood lead levels.

Sponsor: Robert Phillips

SENATE RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND TAIWAN WHILE SUPPORTING ENHANCED BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN AND TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

SENATE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY 11 THROUGH MAY 17, 2025, TO BE "NATIONAL POLICE WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY

Sponsor: David Tikoian

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY 11-17, 2025, AS "QUAHOG WEEK 2025" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: David Bennett

Requires the courts to consider the parental status of the defendant at the time of sentencing and allows the defendant to present a family impact statement, including testimony, videos and documents relative to their parental status.

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Requires that Medicaid enrollment be maintained or provided to all inmates in the first 30 days of incarceration at the adult correctional institutions within the department of corrections and the last 30 days of incarceration when possible.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

SENATE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE ELEANOR SLATER HOSPITAL--ZAMBARANO CAMPUS ON THE RECOGNITION OF "ZAMBARANO DAY" ON MAY 13, 2025

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY 11 THROUGH MAY 17, 2025, TO BE "NATIONAL POLICE WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY

Sponsor: Earl Read

Establishes the Beverage Container Recycling Act

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Creates business tax credit for, eliminates sale tax on, eliminates income tax on the sale of, and creates a 10 year tax valuation freeze on newly renovated affordable housing.

Sponsor: David Place

Creates the extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper program for the recycling of packaging and paper products.

Sponsor: David Bennett

Authorizes the tax administrator to waive interest and penalties on delinquent taxes paid in full during a one week amnesty period. Also reinstates a suspended driver’s license upon payment in full.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Provides that a student's enrollment in Medicaid would be included in calculating and determining the student success factor for use in the foundation education-aid formula.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Establishes the fantasy sports consumer protection act.

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Creates a new chapter to protect Rhode Island consumers from coercive tactics at grocery stores.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the traffic tribunal.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Establishes the Housing Flexible Spending Account Act of 2025 allowing Rhode Island employers to contribute pre-tax income into a housing flexible spending account (H-FSA), for employees to be used for qualified housing expenses.

Sponsor: Alex Finkelman

Provides for an additional real estate conveyance tax for commercial properties sold in excess of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) at a rate of three dollars and thirteen cents ($3.13) for each five hundred dollars.

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Allows Ukrainian parolees residing in Rhode Island under the federal Uniting for Ukraine program, who have been granted temporary parole, to qualify for in-state tuition at Rhode Island state colleges and universities.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Creates the reproductive freedom and gender affirming care health data privacy act.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Creates the resilient Rhode Island property resilience act.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Prohibits the compelled production of a private key as it relates to a digital asset, digital identity or other interest or right.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Requires Rhode Island Energy to enter into at least one long-term contract, for at least a four (4) year period, to procure natural gas pipeline capacity with an interstate pipeline operator.

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Prohibits an insurer from imposing a requirement of prior authorization for any admission, item, service, treatment, test, exam, study, procedure, or any generic or brand name prescription drug ordered by a primary care provider.

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Establishes requirements which would have to be met by an applicant prior to the issuing of permits for an activity that would have an environmental impact on or would increase the cumulative impacts on an environmental justice area.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Establishes the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which would require a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, as defined, to provide a consumer with certain information regarding the company’s policies and procedures regarding use of genetic data.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Removes the licensing exemption for a lender that originates less than six (6) loans in twelve (12) consecutive months.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Amends several sections of chapter 24 of title 45, entitled "zoning ordinances," also known as the "Rhode Island zoning enabling act of 1991," with the intent of preserving neighborhood character and promoting smart growth.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Requires individual and group health insurance policies that provide pregnancy-related benefits to cover medically necessary expenses for diagnosis and treatment of infertility and standard fertility-preservation services.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Amends the pension benefits for both current and former Rhode Island state police members, and would extend the time period a member may serve in the Rhode Island state police.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 8, 2025, TO BE "ARTS DAY IN RHODE ISLAND"

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 10TH, 2025, TO BE "LUPUS DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 8, 2025, TO BE "ARTS DAY IN RHODE ISLAND"

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE WEEK OF MAY 6TH THROUGH MAY 12TH OF 2025, AS "NATIONAL NURSES WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: David Bennett

Requires a reamortization of the state pension fund for 2026.

Sponsor: John Burke

Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, to have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the systems for indigent defendants.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services and mandates annual reporting.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Adds probation and parole officers to the list of state law enforcement professionals, for purpose of retirement on service allowance.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Prohibits a minor from soliciting or possessing an indecent visual depiction from another minor.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Changes the teacher and state employees' retirement benefit calculations' cutoff date from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2012, for all retirement members eligible to and who retire on or after the new July 1, 2012, cutoff date.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires cities and towns to permit attached single-family dwellings in any residential zoning districts and each such dwelling would be entitled to its own parcel thorough subdivision regardless lot size or base zone standards.

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Permits grand juries to issue reports and provides for a process for review and acceptance by the superior court for dissemination to the public.

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

Municipalities required to amend zoning ordinances, to include special listed provisions, to authorize development incentives to increase development density or dimensional flexibility, identify provisions to promote and regulate commercial developments.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires that present and former employees, active and retired members, and beneficiaries receiving any retirement, disability or death allowance receive a $2,000 increase per year.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Affords an option for police and firefighters to receive retirement allowances, without reduction, who seek retirement after twenty (20) years of service upon reaching age fifty-seven (57).

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an interruption in their benefits.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Prohibits defendants who are serving probation for driving under the influence death resulting from earning good time off their probationary period.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Requires that affordable housing would be provided for with some developments.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Amends the section of law relative to violations for driving after denial, revocation or suspension of a license and expands the list of offenses for which an unlicensed motorist would be in violation.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY 5TH THROUGH MAY 9TH OF 2025, TO BE "TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Establishes a prekindergarten seat finder to support families in accessing high quality early childhood education programs for three (3) and four (4) year old children.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

SENATE RESOLUTION HONORING "SAVING WANSKUCK LIBRARY: A CELEBRATION OF COUNCILMAN ANDREW J. ANNALDO, JR." ON MAY 7TH OF 2025

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from conducting or participate in spread pricing within the state.

Sponsor: Lori Urso

SENATE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE RECOGNITION OF THE POKANOKET TRIBE AS THE ANCIENT AND ONGOING STEWARDS OF THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND, AND ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR CENTRAL ROLE IN SHAPING THE REGION'S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Directs the commissioner of postsecondary education to prepare a strategic plan for public higher education which is aligned with the goals of the board of education's strategic plan.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to monitor and mandate changes to the price-setting practices of pharmacy benefit managers to prohibit the spread pricing payment model.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Establishes office of inspector general which would be charged with preventing fraud and mismanagement of public funds, regardless of their source and would oversee all state programs and operations.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Establishes a moratorium on changes to the state energy conservation code from the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code until January 1, 2030, unless approved by the legislature and made effective by the governor.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Amends the obligation of entities to sell at retail to Rhode Island and use customers.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 24, 2025, AS "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY" TO COMMEMORATE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF 1915 TO 1923, AND IN HONOR OF ARMENIAN-AMERICANS

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Allows an income tax credit for employer contributions to an eligible employee's ABLE account, for a maximum credit of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per employee, per year.

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MAY 4TH THROUGH MAY 10TH, 2025, AS "NATIONAL CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: David Tikoian

SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING APRIL 24, 2025, AS "RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Establishes the office of inspector general as an independent administrative agency charged with the responsibility to investigate, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in the expenditure of public funds.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE SECOND WEEK IN MAY OF 2025 TO BE “LUNG CANCER ACTION WEEK” IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF JOYCE JACQUES

Sponsor: Ryan Pearson

This act would sunset/discontinue the Jobs Development Act rate reduction as of July 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY OF 2025 AS "MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MAY OF 2025, TO BE "OLDER AMERICANS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING "Y DAY AT THE STATE HOUSE" ON APRIL 29, 2025

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Removes the age restriction for benefits coverage/requires, after 1/1/26, for policies issued or renewed include coverage for reimbursement for provider services at a rate equal to, or greater than, Medicaid establishments of EOHHS.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Exempts from the sales and use tax, the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.

Sponsor: John Burke

Creates qualified data centers and tax exemptions.

Sponsor: Alex Finkelman

Generates an estate tax discharge upon the recording of a statement by the executor or other estate representative that the value of the decedent’s gross estate does not require a state or federal tax filing.

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Establishes a new educational program that allows students to enroll public and private schools of their choice.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY AND DEFINE THE TERM "HOUSEBOAT" (Authorizes the creation of a special Task Force to study and define the term "houseboat" in consideration of existing definitions under current law.)

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Creates the division of civil representation within the department of housing and require civil representation by a Designated Legal Organization to provide legal representation to all tenants who qualify in eviction proceedings.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Removes the five (5) year waiting period for filing a motion to seal an eviction court file. It also deletes the numerical limitation on filing seal requests.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Exempts subchapter S corporations in the first year of existence from paying the minimum tax.

Sponsor: Gregory Costantino

Increases the net taxable estate exemption to four million dollars ($4,000,000) for deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire District.

Sponsor: George Nardone

HOUSE RESOLUTION AMENDING THE MEMBERSHIP AND EXTENDING THE REPORTING AND EXPIRATION DATES OF THE SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY HOUSING AFFORDABILITY (Increases the membership from eighteen (18) to twenty (20), and extend the reporting and expiration dates of the Commission to Study Housing Affordability from June 7, 2025, to June 5, 2027, and would expire on June 26, 2027.)

Sponsor: June Speakman

Tenants with disabilities may request to keep an emotional support animals.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Would provide children up to age three (3) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losing coverage at the yearly redetermination due solely to administrative barriers.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Prohibits employers from seeking/using credit reports in making hiring decisions concerning prospective employees, asking questions about the applicant's financial past during interviews or including credit history questions in their job applications.

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

Repeals the property tax and sales and use tax exemption for boats.

Sponsor: John Lombardi

Allows real property owner a one-time non-refundable tax credit for the actual costs of connecting a single family or multi-family dwelling to a municipal sewer system credited to the owner's personal or corporate income tax.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Changes utility company billing practices so that when a gas electric utility changes their customer billing, they are required to file a copy of the new bill with the PUC for approval, with a complete explanation of the changes.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Grants tenants that are the victim of various forms of abuse, including, but not limited to, sexual and domestic abuse and stalking, the right to terminate a lease agreement early without penalty or liability for rent.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Amends the composition of school bus districts within the state to provide transportation to students in grades kindergarten through 12.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provide a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good cause.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

Provides for a single, increased range of penalties for all driving offenses which result in serious bodily injury or death.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Establish a moratorium on changes to the state energy conservation code from the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code until January 1, 2030, unless approved by the legislature and made effective by the governor.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Allows for a qualified abandonment of public town roads which grants a public easement over said road allowing it to be converted to walking, biking, and hiking trails and access to parks, nature preserves and other recreational facilities.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Requires the local board of canvassers to publish early voting dates, hours, and location, at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation and to publish the same on the municipality's website for the duration of in-person early voting period.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Eliminates the sales tax on taxi services and pet care services.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Modifies the real estate sales disclosure form to include the disclosure of “blower door diagnostic air leakage testing” and advises that air leakage testing is recommended prior to purchasing a residential unit.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Increases fees paid to jurors to fifty dollars ($50.00) per day.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to 27% of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality annually.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Removes the exemption from the state hotel tax for residences rented in their entirety.

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Reduces the time, from three (3) years to six (6) months, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Allows on and after September 1, 2025, an owner of motor vehicle(s) to transfer ownership and registration of said vehicle on their death, by a certificate of title designation and requires DMV to amend title forms, to include transfer-on-death language.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MAY AS "NATIONAL MILITARY APPRECIATION MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

SENATE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF MAY OF 2025 TO BE "MYOSITIS AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND"

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health plan as of January 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF MAY OF 2025 TO BE “MYOSITIS AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND”

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

HOUSE RESOLUTION DESIGNATING MAY OF 2025 AS “RHODE ISLAND NATIVE PLANT MONTH”

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the Community College of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

Enables any city or town council to adopt a property tax deferral program for senior citizens and disabled persons or veterans.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 77TH ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL'S DAY OF INDEPENDENCE ON APRIL 30TH THROUGH MAY 1ST, 2025, AND REAFFIRMING THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION BETWEEN RHODE ISLAND, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $15,200,000 TO BE USED TO PURCHASE PFAS-FREE FIREFIGHTING GEAR (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $15,200,000 to cities and towns to purchase firefighter and rescue personnel protective gear which is PFAS free.)

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten miles per hour (10mph) less than the posted speed limit.

Sponsor: Thomas Paolino

Create a process to establish a low- or moderate-income housing that exceeds sixty (60) units.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Makes a series of amendments to several statutes regarding businesses and professions to provide clarity or align with new federal requirements.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING APRIL 30, 2025, AS "NATIONAL THERAPY ANIMAL DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Removes appointees of state boards, commissions, public authorities and quasi-public who have a corporate/business interest in the subject matter of the board or commission.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.

Sponsor: Ryan Pearson

Creates a postsecondary tuition assistance for shortage teaching fields.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Changes the excess renewable net-metering credit to a wholesale rate.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Requires the PUC to produce report on comprehensive study by April 30, 2026.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Establishes general case load limits for DCYF workers similar to those contained in the Council on Accreditation standards.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Imposes a hospital licensing fee for fiscal year 2026 against net patient-services revenue of every non-government owned hospital for the hospital’s first fiscal year ending on or after January 1, 2024.

Sponsor: David Bennett

Creates the extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper program for the recycling of packaging and paper products.