2026 Regular Session

Amends the residential landlord and tenant act to prohibit the use of algorithmic renting-setting software that relies on nonpublic competitor data to determine rental prices or occupancy levels for residential dwelling units in Rhode Island.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Permits the Quonset Development Corporation to acquire, own, maintain, and control all streetlights located within the Quonset Business Park.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Modifies the annual registration of commercial vehicles to a biennial registration.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Provides that original equipment manufacturers, implemented by/with surrogate distributors, of agricultural equipment, provide to independent service providers repair information and tools to maintain and repair electronics-enabled agricultural equipment.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Establishes a restricted receipt account for RIPTA to fund it operations from sales tax collected from ride-share companies. Exempts the account from indirect cost recovery provisions.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Increases the Medicaid reimbursement rate for Tier C services in licensed assisted living residences by 13% starting January 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Expands the definition of "educational program" for purposes of the abused and neglected children general law to include charter schools, parochial schools, after school programs, camps and various other programs involving children.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

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

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Establishes requirements for capital, liquidity, and corporate governance including: audit, risk management, and board oversight, for nonbank mortgage servicers.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Facilitates the study of thermal energy technology to determine if these goals can be met by the implementation of thermal energy networks in Rhode Island.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Establishes a procedure for a health insurer to reimburse a healthcare provider no less than sixty-five percent (65%) of each unpaid co-payment, co-insurance or deductible amount due, after reasonable collection efforts.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Amends existing expungement laws to be consistent with the new 10-year lookback period required for DUI charges.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Requires every vehicle that operates in intrastate commerce be permanently marked with a US DOT Number effective April 1, 2027.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

RELATING EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Limits mortgage prepayment rules to mortgages on owner-occupied properties with one to four dwelling units.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Prohibits landlords from inquiring about an applicant's prior incarceration and from discriminating against those who have been released from prison.

Sponsor: John Lombardi

Updates disability parking space signage and enables municipalities to participate in the parking mobility app program where individuals submit photos on the app of vehicles parked in spaces designated for individuals with disabilities.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Advances the interests of older Rhode Islanders by adding a representative of an aging adult organization to the state planning council and a permanent committee on aging to the state planning council.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Excludes from the definition of an "employee" any individual employed in catering, commissary, or food establishment, for purposes of the provisions requiring payment of wages at one and one-half normal rate of pay for work on holidays and Sundays.

Sponsor: Alex Finkelman

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: Cherie Cruz

Amends chapter 44 of title 34 to establish energy storage systems on certain lands consistent with a municipality's comprehensive plan.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Hospital Conversions act amended to authorize AG and DOH to permit expedited review application for hospital insolvency proceedings. Sunsets in one year.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Authorizes the city of Cranston to establish a housing division within its municipal court.

Sponsor: Charlene Lima

Establishes provisions for student and teacher classroom safety and provides the authority to remove students from classrooms. This act provides for student and educator protections from said removals.

Sponsor: Earl Read

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ($20,000,000) TO SUPPORT GREEN ECONOMY AND CLEAN ENERGY BOND INITIATIVES (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $20,000,000 to support the green economy and clean energy bond initiatives.)

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Reinstates, for all teachers and state employees who retired after July 1, 2012, their annual cost of living adjustment for retirement plan year 2026.

Sponsor: John Burke

Removes clean coal as a renewable fuel given priority as an energy generation project.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Establishes a five (5) year moratorium from July 1, 2026, until June 30, 2031, on the RE growth program charge, renewable energy distribution charge and the energy efficiency programs public policy charges on electricity bills.

Sponsor: Richard Fascia

AUTHORIZING THE FORMATION OF A REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT EMBRACING THE TOWNS OF FOSTER AND GLOCESTER

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Broadens the definition of "teacher" and create a comprehensive bill of rights for school teachers.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Clarifies what a contract modification is, namely any change in producer compensation.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Expands meaning of bomb threats and false reports to include any warning or threat of the existence of an explosive device and allows judge to impose conditions of bail to include extreme risk protection orders, no trespass orders and counseling.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Creates the home-fit dwelling units act to apply to all new construction of covered dwelling units to incorporate design features that provide safe and convenient use of to the greatest extent feasible, regardless of age or physical ability.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Enables the town of Portsmouth to adopt, repeal, or modify their tax classification plan for any tax year on and after December 31, 2026.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Provides that where the administration, use, or maintenance of epinephrine within schools and on buses is authorized, this use would include epinephrine auto-injectors and epinephrine nasal sprays

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Provides that for the period up until July 1, 2027, an applicant for a teaching certificate in Rhode Island would not be required to complete a standardized teacher's examination as a prerequisite to obtaining a teaching certificate.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Provides any police report involving a railroad fatality and all communications between railroad employees not be made public. Additionally, it makes a violation of this section a misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Earl Read

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

Sponsor: David Bennett

JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE, PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION (Amends the constitution to guarantee Rhode Island residents with equal opportunity to receive an education that is adequate, equitable and meaningful and provides judicial enforcement of this provision.)

Sponsor: Mary Messier

Establishes the fair chance in housing credit reports act to provide standards for which a credit report can be used in considering a rental application.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

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

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Expands the jurisdiction of the city of Warwick municipal court.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Changes the name of the holiday on the second Monday of August from Victory Day to Peace and Remembrance Day.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Provides that commencing January 1, 2027, the minimum wage shall be twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per hour.

Sponsor: Enrique Sanchez

Sets the minimum wage for 2027 at twenty dollars ($20) per hour.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Increases the notification time about rent increases and termination of tenancy for month-to-month tenants.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Establishes the offshore wind procurement policy study commission.

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Prohibits the use of algorithmic pricing by landlords to determine the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Amend the state’s online E-Permitting Portal using automated plan review and instant permit issuance.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Requires the board of elections to establish a secure area for the public observation of mail ballot processing and require the mail ballot voter’s signature be compared to the signature on file within the state central voter registration system.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Authorizes the town of Middletown to adopt by ordinance, a veterans’ property tax exemption to any veteran, who was honorably discharged, or discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, regardless of dates or periods of service.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

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: Mark McKenney

Creates the certified community behavioral health clinic accountability and oversight act to ensure transparency, fiscal responsibility, and service quality by certified community behavioral health clinics.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

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

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Repeals the older of the two existing chapters related to speech-language pathologists and audiologists and makes several amendments to reconcile the two statutes into one.

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Eliminates prescribed timelines for hearing and determination in certain enforcement actions before the department labor and training to align with reasonable practice.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

Makes construction contractors civilly liable and/or jointly civilly liable for any claims of wage theft or nonpayment from an employee against the contractor, its subcontractors and any subcontractor.

Sponsor: David Bennett

Requires a nursing and assisted living facility to allow its residents to connect their electronic monitoring devices to its internet service without incurring any extra cost or charges.

Sponsor: Jason Knight

Amends current law on interpreter services to mandate hospitals provide a certified, interpreter for every non-English speaker, unless there is no national or state certification for a specific language so that a qualified interpreter may be used.

Sponsor: David Morales

Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate to be divided equally between the general fund and the partnership not-for-profit.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Establishes federal back stop language for any provisions of federal law relating to any of the energy or water conservation standards issued or approved for publication by the office of the United States Secretary of Energy as of January 19, 2025

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Creates a program through which fire departments and fire districts are notified of locations of registrants of electric and hybrid motor vehicles can register their vehicles with their local fire department or fire district.

Sponsor: Earl Read

Allows any member of a federally recognized Indian tribe located in Rhode Island to receive recreational freshwater and saltwater fishing licenses free of charge.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Revises sections of the uniform controlled substances act to remove specific opioid dosage requirements and revise the uniform controlled substances act in accordance with current standards of professional practice.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Requires that any costs, tariffs or other mandates related to the state’s renewable energy growth program be reviewed and approved by the general assembly.

Sponsor: David Place

Excludes nuclear power from the office of energy resources and division of public utilities from participation, procuring and entering into long-term contracts.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Requires the installation and use of a weapons detection system at every public entrance to any school building, gymnasium, school event facility, sporting event site and any site where a school hosts or participates in an event even if off campus.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

Changes the maximum term of employment for a superintendent from three (3) to five (5) years.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Requires effective January 1, 2027, that upon the execution of a lease agreement for a mobile and manufactured homes in a mobile and manufactured home park, a complete copy of the lease be provided to the tenant within 10 days of execution.

Sponsor: George Nardone

Requires BrightStars QRIS ratings for licensed child care facilities to be based on an average of all standards, ensure transparent scoring methods, and preserve automatic five-star ratings for nationally accredited programs.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Permits students diagnosed with asthma, a condition that may lead to bronchospasm or anaphylaxis, or both, to carry and self-administer asthma medication or auto-injectable or intranasal epinephrine, or both.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Adds a provision that allows a tenant to pay the last month's rent or any other prepaid rent. It also increases the amount that a security deposit can be requested from one to two (2) months of rent.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Excludes portable solar generation devices intended primarily to offset part of a customer's electricity consumption from the definition of eligible net-metering system.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Establishes the Rhode Island Special Deposits Act to be governed by an account agreement between the bank and the depositor or its beneficiary.

Sponsor: Jason Knight

Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act to clarify housing-status enforcement, ban discriminatory housing notices, align state law with federal standards and remove a ban on public discussion of fair housing cases.

Sponsor: Edith Ajello

Limits rent increases to 4% annually, but allows an additional increase for taxes, insurance, or health and safety costs if the landlord gets an exemption from the secretary of housing, and provides tenants civil remedies for violations.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Provides for the sealing of eviction records under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: David Morales

Prohibits a landlord from removing a tenant from any housing accommodation, or attempt such removal or exclusion from possession.

Sponsor: Cherie Cruz

Allocates the assessment of fines for failure to file reports between the board of elections between the candidate and political action or political party committee.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Renames the University of Rhode Island football practice field, located at 5E West Alumni Avenue, Kingston, RI 02881, to the "Mark S. Cruise '81 '84 Football Practice Field."

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Raises the minimum threshold contract price before public works contractors are required to pay prevailing wages to their employees, from $1,000 to $100,000.

Sponsor: Arthur Corvese

Creates the public health data privacy and protection act to regulate the reporting of information relating to reportable disease data in the possession of the department of health.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Repeals the Tiverton tax credit for totally disabled veterans and includes a veteran's unmarried widow or widower for a tax credit in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200) or greater.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Establishes the office of the elder advocate to promote the rights of older adults in Rhode Island.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Repeals the energy efficiency charge.

Sponsor: Christopher Paplauskas

Increases the fines for dog ordinance violations in the town of Barrington.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

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

Designates the month of May, annually, as "Rhode Island Native Plant Month," with appropriate ceremonies and activities to recognize and educate people about Rhode Island's native plants.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

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

Sponsor: Richard Fascia

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

Gives the Rhode Island traffic tribunal jurisdiction to hear first offense refusals to submit to a chemical test pursuant to the Alcohol Boating Safety Act.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Redefines dyslexia to mean a specific learning disability characterized by difficulties in word reading and/or spelling that involve accuracy, speed, or both and vary depending on the orthography.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

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

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Amends unfair discrimination statutes to encompass more protected categories and protect against additional forms of discrimination.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Requires renovation projects of pre-1978 buildings to comply with provisions of chapter 24.6 of title 23 and chapter 21 of title 28, and require presence of lead inspector and supervisor and require lead training. DLT would ensure compliance.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Increases from seven (7) days to nine (9) days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections. No certificates of election may be issued, until the recount if any is completed.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Prohibits state or local authorities from voluntary participation in federal civil immigration enforcement. It would not prohibit compliance with a judicial warrant or court order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

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

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MARCH OF 2026, AS "NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO MAKE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF RHODE ISLAND'S HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE RELATED TO EDUCATING AND RETAINING PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS (Creates a 17-member Commission to study Rhode Island’s healthcare workforce related to educating and retaining primary care providers and who would report back annually to the President of the Senate.)

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Imposes certain duties, transparency, and accountability from pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacy benefits management services.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

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

SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF FRANCISCO J. BATISTA

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

JOINT RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE MEDICAID SECTION 1115 DEMONSTRATION WAIVER REQUESTS AND RENEWALS (Allows EOHHS to implement waiver amendments, state plan amendments, and changes to department rules and regulations to make certain updates to the behavioral health per-diem add on program for particularly complex patients.)

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Establishes the framework to create a medical school at the University of Rhode Island and provides an initial appropriation of five million dollars ($5,000,000) as the first phase of a multi-year investment for the development of a medical school.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Expands the health professional loan repayment program to healthcare providers practicing in primary care health settings.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

SENATE RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND'S COMMITMENT TO SUPPORTING WOMEN IN THE BUILDING TRADES AND EXPANDING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO CAREERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Establishes a statewide mobile response and stabilization services program to provide rapid crisis response and short-term stabilization for children and youth in their natural environments.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Require inspection and evaluation of indoor air quality in public schools, departments of health shall establish and recommend thresholds and rates for environmental conditions.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Authorizes the town of Bristol to apply the owner-occupied tax rate for mixed-used properties where the residential portion is owner-occupied.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Prohibits any city or town from enacting any zoning ordinance that would place restrictions on residential recovery houses that are not applicable to other residential homes.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

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

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Permits the court to determine the number of hours a person would have to complete of a batters intervention program and gives the court discretion as to whether that person would be personally financially responsible for the costs thereof.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES

Sponsor: Christopher Blazejewski

Defines a seasonably-habitable non-owner occupied residence, which is not the primary residence of the taxpayer, and which would be exempt from the non-owner occupied property tax.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Permits retired superior court magistrates to be assigned to perform service pursuant to §§ 8-2-11.1, 8-2-39, 8-2-39.1 or 8-2-39.2 and be reemployed by the superior court without any forfeiture or reduction of any retirement benefits.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO MAKE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF RHODE ISLAND'S MEDICAL MALPRACTICE IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND HEALTH CARE COSTS IN RHODE ISLAND (Creates commission to study medical malpractice issues relating to lawsuits, claims, settlements, filings and related impact on insurance costs for providers with report due 10/1/27 and expiration on 1/31/28.)

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF FRANK J. ALMONTE

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

Increases the number of state childcare licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) childcare providers.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Authorizes the department of children, youth and families to license mobile response and stabilization services (MRSS).

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Permits licensed providers to accompany emergency medical services and treat patients within the community for mental health disorders, including substance use disorders.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Provides that for treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, payors would rely upon criteria which reflect generally accepted standards of care when developing coverage.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Mandates that the 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

Liquor licenses in Westerly required to have liability insurance.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Provides that all kratom products for sale would be stored and kept in a locked case, until sold.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Permits municipalities to enter into contracts with the department of transportation for the municipality to perform minor and routine maintenance work on state highways, roadways, and shoulders located within the municipality.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Repeals the older of the two existing chapters related to speech-language pathologists and audiologists and makes several amendments to reconcile the two statutes into one.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Transfers responsibility for implementation of services for persons with traumatic brain injuries from the director of the department of human services to the EOHHS.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Updates the Rhode Island Cannabis Act to remove the current requirement to express cannabinoids as the dry-weight percentages.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Prohibits expiration dates for airline tickets and flight vouchers.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to six thousand dollars ($6,000) with respect to municipal taxes.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Reduces funeral home inspections from twice a year to once a year and removes the practical exam requirement for out-of-state funeral directors and embalmers.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Authorizes the city of Cranston to establish a housing division within its municipal court.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Requires health insurers to comply with federal mental health parity laws, prevent discriminatory treatment limits, and ensures meaningful mental health and substance use coverage in all benefit classifications.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Provides that the statute of limitations for second-degree sexual assault shall be 10 years from the date of the offense, or, in the case of a victim who is under the age of 18, ten years from the victim’s eighteenth birthday, whichever is later.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Allows for the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault reporting forms by law enforcement agencies, enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms, and clarifies that the reporting forms should be submitted monthly.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

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

Requires the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals to publish a statewide guide to the youth behavioral health system.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Requires that all monies received from the payment of fines under the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking be deposited into the into the violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Authorizes the state retirement board to revoke or reduce an individual’s pension benefit if that individual is convicted or pleads guilty or no contest to a felony sex crime related to their public office or public employment.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Bans advertising of cannabis and cannabis products on any medium that may be visible to minors.

Sponsor: Marie Hopkins

Amends sections of the Rhode Island cannabis act relating to the residency requirements for applicants for issuance of a license or certificate to own a cannabis establishment.

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Requires that court sentencing a person for first degree sexual assault of first degree child molestation, have the approval of the victim before imposing any negotiated sentence upon the offender.

Sponsor: Sherry Roberts

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

Prohibits noncompete agreements except for noncompete agreements between a seller and buyer of a business; creates civil action for an employer for the violation of an agreement by employee regarding disclosure or wrongful utilization of trade secrets.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Prohibits health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in-network mental health or substance use disorder services.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Updates the Rhode Island Cannabis Act to eliminate the statutorily required subcommittees under the cannabis advisory board.

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Allows the office of health insurance commissioner (OHIC) as the state agency that has the authority to designate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) care to obtain maximal health outcomes.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF VINCENT D'ADAMO, JR.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING AND COMMENDING PROVIDENCE PROMISE FOR ITS OUTSTANDING WORK EXPANDING COLLEGE SAVINGS, FAMILY ENGAGEMENT, AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS IN PROVIDENCE

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING MIRANDA MARIE MUSUMECI ON BEING NAMED MISS IRELAND IN THE WEST WARWICK ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE 2026

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Eliminates the registration and service charge fees for National Guard plates.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Establishes a marina users' bill of rights allowing recourse through the consumer protection unit of the Rhode Island attorney general's office as well as civil causes of action.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Establishes the Rhode Island orange heart medal to formally recognize Rhode Island veterans whose service exposed them to toxic herbicides, burn pits, or other hazardous agents.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Creates the green buildings act commission to consist of 17 members, responsible for the implementation of the green buildings act.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Creates the multi-unit residential decarbonization initiative program to provide funding for feasibility studies to convert large, multi-family residential units to non-emitting renewable geothermal energy.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplinary and administrative confinement at the department of corrections.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Requires schools to implement a plan to provide academic accommodation for a student who has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE, PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION -- RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION (Amends the constitution to guarantee Rhode Island residents with equal opportunity to receive an education that is adequate, equitable and meaningful and provides judicial enforcement of this provision.)

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Directs the office of energy resources to develop building performance standards for large buildings in Rhode Island that would cause greenhouse gas emissions to decline in line with the act on climate requirements.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Authorizes the town of Bristol to apply the owner-occupied tax rate for mixed-used properties where the residential portion is owner-occupied.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

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: Leonela Felix

Raises the gross weight of a vehicle eligible for reserve forces plates from 8,500 lbs. to 12,000 lbs. with US flag on the plates. Proof of honorable discharge to be provided to DMV.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Includes veterans 75 years or older with a combined service connected disability rating of 70% as eligible for disabled veterans license plates.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Permits the town of Barrington to assess an annual dog licensing fee of seven dollars ($7.00).

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Authorizes the town council of Little Compton to establish a homestead exemption for residential dwellings.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Permits Smithfield to require 2 parking spaces for each studio, one-bedroom, or two-bedroom low- or moderate-income housing unit upon the determination that limited or no local public transportation or off-street parking is available near these units.

Sponsor: Gregory Costantino

Authorizes the town of Jamestown to authorize, by ordinance, the expansion of the local tax exemption ordinance for seniors.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $1,000,000 TO 401 TECH BRIDGE TO STUDY AND EXPLORE SEAGLIDERS IN RHODE ISLAND (Makes an appropriation of $1,000,000 to 401 Tech Bridge to study and explore seagliders.)

Sponsor: Alex Finkelman

Requires that retailers retain money received for gift certificates in a separate account, until the gift certificate is used or redeemed.

Sponsor: Robert Phillips

Grants hourly credit of 288 hours against 576 hours if graduate of accredited trade school/raises to 4 years of work under master plumber and requires 8,000 hours of on-the-job training plus 5 years of registration with DLT.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Establishes "The Children's Cardiac Safety Act", and provide for childhood cardiac screening based on modules that incorporate current best practices.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Establishes a moratorium on changes to the state energy conservation code from the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code until January 1, 2031, unless approved by the legislature and made effective by the governor.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Provides that certain Hmong or Lao veterans who served honorably in military operations in support of the United States as special guerrilla units be granted burial rights at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY EXPANDING PATHWAYS INTO THE TEACHING PROFESSION (Creates a special legislative commission of 17 members whose purpose would be to study evaluate and make recommendations regarding educator preparation, licensure, certification and early-career support systems in the state.)

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO ENACT THE MAJOR RICHARD STAR ACT

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

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: Matthew LaMountain

Disabled veteran license plate may be transferred to veterans' spouse or issued to veteran or veterans spouse.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

SENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING MARCH OF 2026 AS “ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS - YOUTH ART MONTH” IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH OF 2026, AS "BLEEDING DISORDERS AWARENESS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MICHAEL D. ZARUM

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH 10TH, 2026, TO BE "HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDER DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

SENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE FOLLOWING SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY SERGEANT FIRST CLASS NICOLE AMOR, SERGEANT DECLAN COADY, CAPTAIN CODY KHORK, SERGEANT FIRST CLASS NOAH TIETJENS, MAJOR JEFFREY O'BRIEN, SERGEANT BENJAMIN N. PENNINGTON AND CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER ROBERT MARZAN

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Establishes a twenty-seven (27) member joint commission to study ways to maximize revenue for child welfare and children’s behavioral health services.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Allows citizens of a city or town who are at least sixteen (16) years of age to register to vote and to vote in school committee elections in municipalities where school committees are elected entities.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY RHODE ISLAND'S METHOD OF FUNDING CHARTER SCHOOLS (Creates a 13-member joint commission to study Rhode Island’s method of funding charter schools, and would report back to the Governor and the General Assembly by April 1, 2027, and would expire on July 1, 2027.)

Sponsor: John Edwards

Permits special community service to be imposed because of bullying based on religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Establishes full-time juvenile hearing board coordinator to provide support and assistance to municipal juvenile hearing boards across the state. Any juvenile charged with a misdemeanor and who is a first offender, shall be referred to the hearing board.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Requires courts to presume release for most probation violations, set reasonable bail or non-monetary conditions, limit detention to cases of risk or danger, require prompt hearings, and mandate written reasons for detention.

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

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 superior court clerk to automatically seal cases/individual counts of a criminal complaint/indictment that were dismissed, upon request of defendant and serve it upon bureau of criminal identification, police department and counsel of record.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Allows automatic voter registration for Rhode Islanders applying for hunting and fishing licenses.

Sponsor: Richard Fascia

Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs may include the name of the dispensing healthcare practice instead of the name of the dispenser.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Allows eligible disabled and military voters to continue to utilize electronically transmitted ballots as originally enacted in 2022.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT -- THE RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS CLIMATE REFORM

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Removes obsolete language and clarifies asbestos abatement and radon control requirements.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

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

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

Requires all schools and educational institutions to develop and implement a school safety plan that would provide for immediate access to school facilities by first responders in an emergency.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Requires the department of health to implement a tobacco control program that incorporates evidence-based best practices for tobacco prevention and cessation to prevent tobacco-related diseases and diminish tobacco use in the state.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Provides for release of misdemeanor arrestees without financial conditions, except for domestic violence or flight risk or obstruct of justice risk.

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

RELATED TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCING RECONSIDERATION ACT

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires the coastal resources management council to conduct a review of certain water classifications and existing policies and regulations to properly account for sea level rise.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Requires all school districts to designate a certified athletic trainer at each high school within its district.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

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: Stephen Casey

Requires schools to implement a plan to provide academic accommodation for a student who has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

JOINT RESOLUTION URGING THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TO STUDY AND REGULATE THE IMPACT OF WAKE BOATS ON RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC WATERWAYS (Urging the Rhode Island department of environmental management to study and regulate the impact of wake boats on Rhode Island public waters.)

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Creates the reproductive health and gender-affirming healthcare data privacy act.

Sponsor: Jason Knight

Changes how voter are notified of elections and vote registration deadlines, and local board questions.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Administratively seals, upon request of the defendant following the conclusion of the matter in district court, individual counts of any criminal complaints dismissed pursuant to Rule 48(a) that were filed on or after October 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Requires commercial property owners to install vehicle barriers at their retail establishments when new construction or renovations are being done and permits insurers to consider the installation to provide a discount on the owner's insurance policy.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocate.

Sponsor: Thomas Paolino

Makes it a felony to file a false police report of a crime carrying a sentence of imprisonment of not less than five (5) years.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Provides a specific cause of action for violations of the rights of nursing home patients chapter.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Permits local communities to adopt an all-charter public school model for public education upon an affirmative vote of the local municipality’s council and school committee, and an affirmative vote at a special or general election.

Sponsor: David Place

Requires every elementary and secondary school within the State of Rhode Island to provide and maintain clearly visible and easily accessible trauma kits within the school. It also provides immunity if assistance is rendered.

Sponsor: David Bennett

Limits early voting to eight (8) weekdays and the two (2) weekend days immediately preceding election day.

Sponsor: Jon Brien

Creates the Save Rhode Island School Libraries Act.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Requires that student mentors in public schools be certified support educators, ensuring mentors have professional training, established student relationships, and access to skills and information needed to support student success.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Allows charter schools to engage in nontraditional approaches to learning.

Sponsor: David Place

Requires the board of elections to establish a secure area for the public observation of mail ballot processing and require the mail ballot voter’s signature be compared to the signature on file within the state central voter registration system.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Creates a new chapter to provide for non-charitable bingo by the state lottery division.

Sponsor: John Burke

Prevents anyone from wagering money or any other thing of value on the outcome of a greyhound race or other dog race, or accept or facilitate such wagering, regardless of the location at which the race takes place.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.

Sponsor: Richard Fascia

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $5,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the RI Public Transit Authority to continue services, hire and train more bus operators, and implement the State's Act on Climate goals.)

Sponsor: Karen Alzate

Submits the state's 2026 capital development program requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling two hundred seventeen million dollars ($217,000,000) for approval of the electorate at the general election to be held in November 2026.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

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

Requires the state, and private insurers that cover prescription hormone therapy, to dispense twelve (12) months’ worth of the prescription as a single prescription.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Provides any student, who meets the requirements of this section, with an exemption from paying nonresident tuition at Rhode Island public universities, colleges, or community colleges.

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.

Sponsor: Sherry Roberts

Establishes an oversight process which would safeguard individuals seeking therapy or psychotherapy services by ensuring that the services are delivered by qualified, licensed, or certified professionals.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Allows a police officer to be reemployed by a state agency or department for purposes of working a state-funded detail subject to certain restrictions.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

Mandates health insurance coverage by eliminating out-of-pocket costs for lung cancer screenings in order to enable patients to get the critical care they need without delay.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE DISPARATE IMPACT OF DISCIPLINARY POLICIES ON STUDENTS (Creates an 12-member commission to study the impact on family and school performance in relation to current disciplinary policies in public schools, and would report back by November 17, 2027, and would expire on February 17, 2028.)

Sponsor: Nathan Biah

Amends the standards and limitations on permitted parking requirements for dwelling units.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Eliminates prescribed timelines for hearing and determination in certain enforcement actions before the department labor and training to align with reasonable practice.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Community MusicWorks located in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $800,000 TO WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE (This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $800,000 to WaterFire Providence.)

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE MANNER IN WHICH HEALTH INSURANCE, DISABILITY INSURANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, RETIREMENT PLANS AND OTHER TRADITIONAL EMPLOYER PROVIDED BENEFITS ARE ACCORDED TO UBER AND LYFT DRIVERS, SELF-DIRECTED PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANTS, SELF EMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS, AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC (Creates 5 member commission to study the way insurance plans/traditional employer-provided benefits are given to Uber/Lyft drivers, self-directed personal care attendants and others providing services to public, and reports back 1/5/27 and expires 3/5/27.)

Sponsor: David Place

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

Permits the construction of residential buildings that are up to four (4) stories and sixteen (16) dwelling units with a single staircase under certain conditions.

Sponsor: June Speakman

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: Joseph McNamara

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

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Requires a court considering evidence for the issuance of a temporary emergency protective order to cause the respondent to be taken into protective custody by law enforcement and sent to an emergency room of any hospital, pursuant to § 40.1-5-7.1.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Authorizes the town of North Providence, if an aggregate of two hundred fifty (250) or more units should be proposed in comprehensive permit project(s), to enact an emergency moratorium until the permit requirement of § 45-53-4 are amended.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $200,000 TO THE HOUSING NETWORK: THE RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFIT HOUSING DEVELOPERS, DBA HOUSING NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $ 200,000 to the Housing Network of Rhode Island.)

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Requires the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS) to apply an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (“COLA”) to the Medicaid reimbursement rates paid for assisted living services provided pursuant to this chapter.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY (Creates a 5 member commission to recommend legislative proposals for blockchain and cryptocurrency, and submit an interim progress report by January 5, 2027, and a final report by January 5, 2028, and would expire on February 5, 2028.)

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Authorizes municipalities to make an emergency declaration under limited circumstances to allow for the construction and use of SAFE Units on a temporary basis which have specialized requirements and exemptions from the state fire and building codes.

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

Allows for the issuance of a Class B or Class B-H liquor license for the property located at 349 Main Street in the town of South Kingstown.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation fringe benefit program.

Sponsor: Raymond Hull

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

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

Changes the direct client contact hour requirements for applicants for licensure of marriage and family therapist associate and applicants for licensure of marriage and family therapist.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY SHARED SERVICES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR REGIONALIZATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND (Creates a 9 member commission to study shared services and the potential for regionalization of school districts, and who would report back to the Senate by April 15, 2027, and whose life would expire once its report is issued.)

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

Requires the state investment commission to create a capital access initiative to expand potential investment opportunities for the state’s pension fund and engage qualified but traditionally underrepresented investment managers.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF MANUEL PEDROSO

Sponsor: Christopher Blazejewski

Provides that licensed assisted living community is not required to hold a residential unit for a Medicare-eligible resident absent from the facility for a period exceeding 10 days unless EOHHS provides payment to the facility to hold the bed.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 8, 2026, AS "INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY" AND THE MONTH OF MARCH AS "WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Lori Urso

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

Sponsor: Lori Urso

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: Andrew Dimitri

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 2026 AS "NATIONAL CREDIT EDUCATION MONTH" AND COMMENDING THOSE ORGANIZATIONS THAT FOCUS ON FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

Establishes a statewide broadband community outreach coordinator to assist state residents interested in learning more and/or applying for, the federal Affordable Connectivity Program.

Sponsor: John Lombardi

Requires insurers to develop plans for coverage and access to nonnarcotic, nonopioid and nonmedication pain management for moderate to severe pain. It further restricts utilization review for nonopioid drugs.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

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: Lori Urso

Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and families.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Requires that in the town of Coventry, local regulations shall require approval of the permitting authority for both private and public improvements prior to final plan approval.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Requires a municipality to disclose on their official website the specific issues, details and costs of any legal action of which the town or city is a named defendant within 60 days after the close of the fiscal year.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Mandates health insurance coverage by eliminating out-of-pocket costs for lung cancer screenings in order to enable patients to get the critical care they need without delay.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Permits North Providence to require 2 parking spaces for each studio, 1 bedroom, or 2 bedroom low- or moderate-income housing unit upon the determination that limited or no local public transportation or off-street parking is available near these units.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

Provides certain procedures that must be followed before an encampment can be removed or relocated.

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Project Hand Up, located in the town of West Warwick.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Prohibits individual who operates a recreational vehicle in a reckless or negligent manner which hinders the movement of other vehicles with a group of 2 more vehicles be guilty of felony, punishable by imprisonment up to 2.5 years and fine up to $2,000.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Blithewold, Inc., located at 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island.

Sponsor: Linda Ujifusa

Allows a modification to federal adjusted gross income for personal income tax for qualified tips and overtime income consistent with the federal tax treatment.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing or using location data for tracking a student's institutional device or personal device, except in limited circumstances.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Prohibits municipalities from restricting certain landscaping equipment based on its power source. It also prohibits any changes in the regulation of the use of power equipment in the municipality, without a positive referendum vote.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

Creates the School Libraries Act.

Sponsor: Hanna Gallo

Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms. Adds civil fines and misdemeanor for violations.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Permits dealers without a distributor's license to resell cigars, and ultra premium pipe tobacco, excluding pipe tobacco intended for cigarettes, to other dealers.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Establishes the restrictive housing oversight committee ("committee") for the purpose of monitoring the use of restrictive housing ("solitary confinement"), as well as disciplinary and administrative confinement at the department of corrections.

Sponsor: Jonathon Acosta

JOINT RESOLUTION RESCINDING ALL PRIOR ARTICLE V CONVENTION APPLICATIONS (Cancels and nullifies all prior applications by the general assembly calling for a constitutional convention.)

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Requires any contractor performing construction or maintenance for RIDOT, RITBA or any other construction on any state roads have in place an attenuator truck/crash truck with an operational camera.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Requires state agency cited in reports of the child fatality review panel to provide child advocate, speaker, senate president and governor with written response within 180 days addressing implementation of report recommendations.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Updates, streamlines the law regarding loss or suspension of license by the DMV, and eliminates the provisions that the division may suspend a license for reckless or negligent operation of a motor vehicle or for frequency of offense.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Amends the general law relative to right-of-way of pedestrians to reference the schedule of violations for the adjudication of traffic offenses contained in § 31.41.1-4.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

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

Prohibits solicitation of money or other donations while an individual is standing or sitting in a crosswalk, intersection or safety zone.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Allows the medical advisory board to suspend the license of an operator-- authorizes the medical advisory board to order an operator to use an interlock ignition system.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Aligns the implementation date of youth camp licensing within the operational, and statutory framework of the Rhode Island department of human services and department of children, youth and families.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Adds school superintendents, central office officials, school principals, and all other school employees, to the definition of a “public official” for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Authorizes the committees of the general assembly to allow members of the public to provide testimony remotely.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Requires that any person convicted of a charge of driving under the influence or refusal to submit to a chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in their vehicle as part of any sentence before being eligible for a license reinstatement.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

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

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Adds staff of day camps and residential camps for youth to the definition of "person responsible for a child's welfare" within the chapter on abused and neglected children.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Requires the JNC to establish standardized merit-based selection process and that applications be evaluated according to uniform, job-related criteria adopted in advance and published on the commission's website.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Requires shooting ranges to post signs in any area in which shooting occurs that contain the following language: “WARNING: If you or a loved one is experiencing distress and/or depression, call the 988 Suicide and Crisis hotline or text “HOME” to 741741.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Allows employees, not represented by a union, to create a group to collectively bargain with employers.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Allows a party to condition a transaction by electronic means on their stated desire to obtain and receive a written copy of the document in English or Spanish before electronic execution of the agreement or performance is required of the party.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Limits use of restraints on juveniles in transport and court proceedings to safety or escape risks, requires least restrictive methods, and mandates reporting on when and why restraints were used.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Removes the provision not allowing to publicly post or display the personal information of any protected individual or immediate family member without first obtaining permission.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Allows the town of North Providence to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoning laws and/or ordinances of the town.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

Established a cause of action against state government entities for violation of civil rights.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Eliminates fingerprinting fees for licensed childcare hires, require background checks for youth activity instructors, and allow active TS/SCI clearance to satisfy criminal background check requirements.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Clarifies the means by which attached single-family dwelling units may be created, recorded, and regulated as subdivisions of an existing lot under current zoning ordinance law.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Increases continuing education requirements for physician assistants, removes restrictions of PAs to render charitable care and aid for school and youth programs or cardiac arrest and removes restrictive covenants as to ownership by a PA.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Allows a different minimum salary schedule for Providence public school teachers and provides a process for the dismissal and demotion of teachers. The reconstitution and control of the Providence public schools would terminate on June 30, 2026.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Allows for the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault reporting forms by law enforcement agencies, enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms, and clarifies that the reporting forms should be submitted monthly.

Sponsor: Ana Quezada

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

Restricts increases in monthly common expenses and limit special assessments to cover unforeseen costs not included in the condo association’s approved annual budget for common expenses where the minority of the units are deed-restricted units.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Requires employers to provide full-time employees four (4) hours of paid leave once a year to donate blood through and any approved blood donation program.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Provides that DEM regulations and CRMC in consultation with the chief resilience officer shall update to prioritize nature based solutions for coastal resilience projects that would be coordinated by DEM using an expedited permitting process.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Establishes enforcement limitations on contract terms for the licensing of electronic books or digital audiobooks to libraries to preclude the library from being subject to unfair sales practices.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Creates the reproductive health and gender-affirming healthcare data privacy act.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Precludes a legal entity from owning property whose value is over $25,000,000. If the property value exceeds $25,000,000, then the entity must divest a graduated yearly amount over the next 10 years, until value is less than $25,000,000.

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Provides that the month of September in each year be designated "Rhode Island Senior Center Month" with appropriate exercises in public places.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Removes the requirement that 5% of the hotel tax generated from regional tourism districts be paid to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau, and adds that 5% of the hotel tax to the existing tax paid to the RI commerce corporation.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

SENATE RESOLUTION FORMALLY REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TO IMPLEMENT ALL PROVISIONS OF THE STATE FUNDING FORMULA FOR EDUCATION

Sponsor: Ryan Pearson

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

Requires any business entity that makes automatic renewal offers or memberships or subscriptions that are available on-line, also make the canceling such agreements for goods, services, memberships or subscriptions equally accessible on-line.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Extends certain protocols applicable to vehicle manufacturers to their distributors and factory branches, updates definitions relative to common entities and sales.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Removes the sunset provision of the Rhode Island hope pilot scholarship program, making it a permanent scholarship program and renames the program as the Rhode Island hope scholarship program.

Sponsor: Ryan Pearson

Reduces the newspaper advertising notice requirements for amendments to zoning ordinances and planning board meetings from three (3) weeks to two (2) weeks.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Prohibits the consideration of an applicant's credit history in determining automobile insurance rates.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Provides an update to certain insurance sections of law to update or eliminate outdated sections of the insurance law.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $5,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the RI Public Transit Authority to continue services, hire and train more bus operators, and implement the State's Act on Climate goals.)

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Requires the state and private health insurers to reimburse claims for healthcare services provided by nurse practitioners and physician assistants at the same amount as the reimbursement paid to a physician performing the service in the area served.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Exempts certain cookware that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS that are authorized by the FDA for food contact for consumer goods from the provision of the consumer PFAS ban act of 2024.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and adverse employment action for failure to meet the quota.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Includes individuals as contributors. Increases annual credit cap by percentage amount of unused credits. Increases the tax credit rate percentage. Establishes scholarships of $750,000 to disadvantaged students and $250,000 to pre-K students.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Requires employers to protect employees from extreme temperatures through rest breaks, PPE, training, and equipment, and mandates quarterly supervisor training, to recognize and mitigate heat- and cold-related risks.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Funds the Rhode Island baby bonds trust program without the use of taxpayer dollars through an annual allocation of unclaimed property remittances.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

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

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Mandates that athletic teams that are sponsored by a public school or a private school whose teams compete against a public school, be designated as (1) "males", "men" or "boys"; (2) "females", "women" or "girls"; or (3) "coed" or "mixed".

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.

Sponsor: Elaine Morgan

Establishes the Residential and Commercial Property Acquisition Program Act to implement residential or commercial property acquisitions, paired with funding for relocation costs within or proximate to the current community.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CREATION OF A STATEWIDE TEACHER HEALTHCARE PLAN (Creates an 11-member commission to study and make recommendations on a statewide teacher healthcare plan, and would report quarterly as of September 1, 2026, and submit a final report by September 1, 2027, and expires on December 31, 2027.)

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Permits extended early intervention services for children with developmental disabilities whose third birthday is between May 1 and August 31.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Prohibits health insurance companies or other payors from including in physician participation agreements any provisions that restrict or prevent a physician from charging patients reasonable administrative or operational fees to support overhead.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Provides that commencing January 1, 2027, the minimum wage shall be twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per hour.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Amends the definition of abandoned property by imposing the requirement that the building owner be notified of the violation and has failed to address such violations in the timeframes set forth in the notice of violation or court order.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Establishes the Super Speeder Accountability Act to be used as a sentencing option or enhancement for drivers charged with certain driving violations.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Allows the town of Smithfield to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoning laws and/or ordinances of the town.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Allows for food and food supplies procurement by the state of less than $25,000 in aggregate under the small purchase regulations.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Provides a tax credit to a taxpayer that makes a qualified investment in a qualified business.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Clarifies the manner in which certain dental insurance benefits are paid directly to the provider.

Sponsor: John Burke

Requires any public utility company that needs to close any state or municipal roadway for work to provide notice to all residential and business property owners located within 1,000 ft of the closed highway at least 48 hrs before the road closure.

Sponsor: Brian Thompson

Allows for the issuance of a Class B or Class B-H liquor license for the property located at 349 Main Street in the town of South Kingstown.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Requires that the chief judge of the family court in appointing magistrates do so in accordance with the judicial selection and nomination process set forth in chapter 16.1 of title 8.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Allows for the issuance of a Class BV liquor license for the property located at 819 Westminster Street in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: John Lombardi

Requires insurance companies to settle claims or request additional information within 30 days of receipt of a notice of claim. Failure to comply results in $250/day payable to the insured party.

Sponsor: Ryan Pearson

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

Allows electronic notifications modernize language for notifications, synchronize renewal dates for certain license-types, streamline licensing requirements across several license-types, and update the unlicensed health care practices statute.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Authorizes the department of children, youth and families to license mobile response and stabilization services (MRSS).

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Requires the producer of artificial turf and turf infill sold or distributed in RI to report its chain of custody, from installation to use, repurposing, recycling and disposal to the department of environmental management.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Requires the executive office of health and human services to consider a new element when reviewing the appropriate Medicaid payments to be paid to nursing facilities.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Creates a publicly funded program for uninsured individuals requiring on an appropriation of $53,200,000 for fiscal year 2027 and an appropriation of 109,600,000 for fiscal year 2028 and every fiscal year thereafter.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Provides the state would cover dialysis for the treatment of end stage renal disease ("ESRD") and kidney transplants for persons who do not qualify for full Medicaid due to their immigration status.

Sponsor: David Morales

Provides that effective July 1, 2026, the profit margin of any electric distribution company or distributor of natural gas, would not exceed four percent (4%), in any given calendar year.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Adds a new category to the eligibility of childcare assistance to include a "protective services category" which would include foster or kinship children served through DCYF.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervision roles to wear body cameras while on duty in their assigned facility.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Expands RI’s Renewable Energy Standard to include nuclear and hydroelectric power as eligible zero-emission resources and sets rules for how they qualify.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Allows the town of Tiverton to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoning laws and/or ordinances of the town.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Clarifies how condominium insurance deductibles and unpaid losses are divided between associations and unit owners, require owners to insure units if associations do not, and allow boards to manage and use insurance proceeds for repairs.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Requires that the state’s share to support public library services in fiscal year 2027 be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated and expended by the city or town in the second preceding fiscal year.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Exempts certain urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. This act would also define urban and small farmers and urban farmland.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

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

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING UNCONSTITUTIONAL TACTICS BY U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND BEYOND

Sponsor: Jason Knight

Prohibits law enforcement agencies from hiring individuals who was hired as a sworn officer of the US Immigration and Customs enforcement Agency on or after January 20, 2025 and would apply prospectively to an individual hired on or after October 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Karen Alzate

Adds "media literacy" to the standards currently taught in civic education for K-12, which are the history of Rhode Island, representative government, the rights and duties of actively engaged citizenship and the principles of democracy.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI and honoring the late Maryellen Goodwin.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Establishes a motor vehicle license plate to honor Governor Roger Williams.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Prohibits ICE employees, agents or officials from being within two hundred feet (200 ft) of any polling place during voting.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Takes several measures to lead by example by banning state purchases of plastic bottles, and requires state funds to be used to lease or purchase electric vehicles and renewable energy efficient technologies for use on state property.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Authorizes pharmacists to order, perform and interpret CLIA-waived tests authorized by statewide protocol and prescribe medications, and permits coverage by all health insurance carriers.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Appropriates two million seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) to fund the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the department of health.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Submits the state's 2026 capital development program requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) for approval of the electorate at the general election to be held in November, 2026.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Establishes a tax credit for businesses transitioning to employee ownership.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Designates certain program workers and shift coordinators at the training school as peace officers while on duty.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Prohibits public utilities, serving greater 100,000 customers from recovering through rates any direct or indirect cost associated with, amongst other costs, advertising, marketing, communications.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Permits RI Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Ethnic Fairness, in consultation with RI Bar Association and its Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, to appoint members of JNC and requires judicial candidates to disclose political donations.

Sponsor: Dawn Euer

Bars state and local police from joining federal immigration enforcement programs, limits holding people on detainer without judicial warrants, and requires tracking and reporting of requests.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Provides that no new charter school application shall be granted, if the proposed school is a network charter school or the expansion of an existing charter school creates a network charter school.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities that choose to participate. Reports to be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and submitted to the department of environmental management.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law related to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers.

Sponsor: Matthew LaMountain

Sets conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by the state board of pharmacy.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

For purposes of the judicial security act permits an authorized agent to file a written notice with a state, county, or municipal agency on behalf of a protected individual.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Defines “electronic nicotine-delivery system shop” and requires that ten percent (10%) of sales revenue from said shops be transferred to the tobacco cessation programs pursuant to § 27-20-53.

Sponsor: Louis Dipalma

Provides that energy storage systems located on abandoned or contaminated property be permitted by right as a permitted use and not considered to have negative environmental impacts.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

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

Mandates DCYF protection for benefits owed to foster children.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Allows a police officer to be reemployed by a state agency or department for purposes of working a state-funded detail subject to certain restrictions.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

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

Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements to minors in Rhode Island and require age verification, restricted access, and civil penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Provides that Rhode Island state employees be eligible for temporary disability insurance effective January 1, 2027.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY CURRENT CONDOMINIUM LAW AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND ONGOING AFFORDABILITY OF CONDOMINIUMS IN RHODE ISLAND (Creates a 16-member commission to study current condominium law and provide recommendations for improvements, and who would report back to the General Assembly by December 31, 2027, and would expire on March 15, 2028.)

Sponsor: Bridget Valverde

Further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Bars the council from granting approval to create or expand a charter school beginning operations in 26-27 school year and bars the state from approving or appropriating funds to a new charter school not approved before July 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Melissa Murray

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

Requires public auctions by any city or town of real estate or an interest therein to only be done in person and not by electronic or remote procedures unless authorized by court order.

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

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: Alana DiMario

Directs the state department of education to establish an anti-hazing policy in student athletics.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Requires the placement of a stop sign at any intersection of a roadway and bike path.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

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

Sponsor: Todd Patalano

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: David Morales

Prohibits the charging of swipe fees on taxes and gratuities.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs may include the name of the dispensing healthcare practice instead of the name of the dispenser.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

HOUSE RESOLUTION COMMENDING RHODE ISLAND ENERGY AND LOCAL UTILITY WORKERS ON RESTORATION EFFORTS DURING EXTREME WINTER WEATHER EVENTS

Sponsor: Joseph Shekarchi

Replaces the existing limited liability company act with a newer and updated model act.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE WOMEN’S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND (WFRI)

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

HOUSE RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH OF 2026, TO BE "WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF TAÍNO DESCENDANTS IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Jose Batista

HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING "REACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND DAY" ON MARCH 3, 2026 IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Sponsor: Justine Caldwell

Provides for the creation of medical and dental schools at the University of Rhode Island.

Sponsor: Marie Hopkins

Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2026.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

Adds property damage to statutory underinsured motor coverage, rather than just uninsured motorist coverage, as it is presently.

Sponsor: David Tikoian

Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to disclose whether a potential applicant's name appears on a list of teachers terminated for good cause.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Permits licensed providers to accompany emergency medical services and treat patients within the community for mental health disorders, including substance use disorders.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Deceptive trade practice to sell vehicle used in violent crime or exposed to biohazards without notice to purchaser.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Adds vehicles owned by the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc. to the vehicles to be equipped with flashing lights.

Sponsor: Sherry Roberts

Permits physician assistants to practice without a physician's direct supervision and receives direct payments from Medicaid.

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Requires every vehicle that operates in intrastate commerce be permanently marked with a US DOT Number effective April 1, 2027.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the definition of “collaborative practice committee.”

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Prohibits state agencies from entering into software contracts that limit the agency's ability to install or run the software of the agency's choosing on their hardware.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Permits a certified foot care nurse to provide certain at-home foot care, including routine foot and nail care including nail clipping. DOH determines fair and reasonable license and renewal fees for nurses providing services.

Sponsor: Lori Urso

Includes routine, scheduled or recommended immunizations to individuals between the ages of three (3) and eighteen (18) years, under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Requires specific notice of the tax sale to the taxpayer with a copy of this § 44-9-10 attached thereto. Failure to do so would render the tax sale null and void.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Requires businesses that conduct business to register and maintain required filings with the secretary of state so that consumers and small businesses may readily identify responsible parties, verify good standing, and effectuate service of process.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Mandates insurance coverage for scalp cooling treatments for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy treatments.

Sponsor: Karen Alzate

Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in the state when those services are rendered.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Allows a lender to charge an origination fee, increase interest rates and collect a monthly service fee, on loans up to three hundred dollars ($300) but not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Spells out requirements for operation of recreational vehicles, manual, electric or gas powered.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Sets conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by the state board of pharmacy.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Requires that an independent efficiency and performance audit of the department of transportation be commissioned by the department of administration.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Provides a series of updates to size, weight, and load regulations for commercial and specialized vehicles.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Creates the surveillance pricing and online retailing act that would prohibit algorithmic price increases for online purchases.

Sponsor: Alex Marszalkowski

JOINT RESOLUTION REPEALING RHODE ISLAND'S RATIFICATION OF THE CORWIN AMENDMENT (This Joint Resolution would repeal the General Assembly’s previous ratification of the Corwin Amendment.)

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Charges a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each battery powered elective motor vehicle safety inspection. It would also require any vehicle, regardless of gross vehicle weight rating, to be subject to emissions inspection.

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Amends the current law on health insurance coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment and requires coverage for any medically necessary ovulation-enhancing drugs and medical services.

Sponsor: Karen Alzate

Repeals the law that prevents a collective bargaining agreement covering state employees, public school teachers and municipal employees from specifying a particular healthcare provider in it.

Sponsor: Jon Brien

Expands the scope of practice for nurse anesthetists with two years’ or more experience to remove the requirement of physician supervision.

Sponsor: Marie Hopkins

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 $10,000,000 to the Rhode Island Foundation, to generate funds to support public education through distributions to local education agency foundations. The funds would be disbursed over 5 years.)

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Establishes the Rhode Island Maternal Health Improvement and Equity Act of 2026, to establish permanent statewide support for maternal health and to implement the maternal health strategic plan improving maternal health care and access.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Provides that roads located within the Quonset Business Park be under the control of the Quonset Development Corporation.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

Allows for the issuance of a Class B liquor license for the property located at 150 Broadway in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Establishes the Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rates set by the general assembly as the rate floor for Medicaid managed care by home care, home nursing care and hospice providers.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Prohibits cities or towns that implement a rent control ordinance from raising property taxes and such prohibition would last for as long as the rent control ordinance is in effect.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Affordable housing includes an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) where it’s a long-term rental unit in a municipality with no ordinance requiring a minimum lot size for ADUs.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.

Sponsor: David Place

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

Sponsor: David Morales

Requires any person in the business of selling, assigning or buying an equitable interest in real estate without taking legal title to such property, to be licensed as a real estate broker or salesperson and to comply with the disclosure requirements.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

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

Sponsor: David Bennett

Authorizes the Johnston town council to set tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution for qualified individuals defined in the act.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Provides a civil cause of action for individuals injured by artificial intelligence.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Creates an intervenor compensation program to provide compensation in the form of grants for legal fees, expert witness fees, and other reasonable costs to an intervenor in both, energy siting board and public utilities commission proceedings.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Raises the percentage from eighty percent (80%) to eighty-five percent (85%) regarding declaring a vehicle a total loss.

Sponsor: Jacquelyn Baginski

Requires that state departments and agencies integrate the recommendations contained in the act on climate strategy report.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Authorizes temporary periods for extended service hours under existing liquor licenses for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Tournament, subject to limitations or opt out by a municipality via council resolution.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Requires the examination for licensing of certified nursing assistants by the department of health to be administered in both English and Spanish.

Sponsor: Nathan Biah

Restricts increases in monthly common expenses and limit special assessments to cover unforeseen costs not included in the condo association’s approved annual budget for common expenses where the minority of the units are deed-restricted units.

Sponsor: June Speakman

ROOM) ACT (Expands access to inherently affordable housing by re-legalizing co-living/single-room occupancy (SRO) and shared dwelling models of many types.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Requires condominium associations to conduct structural surveys and reserve studies, fund reserves at 15%, and plan for repairs.

Sponsor: Brandon Voas

Authorizes the town of Johnston, if an aggregate of two hundred fifty (250) or more units should be proposed in comprehensive permit project(s), to enact an emergency moratorium until the permit requirement of § 45-53-4 are amended.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Gives mobile home residents a right of first refusal to buy or lease their park, requiring owners to notify the residents’ association and the Department of Business Regulation of bona fide offers and allow time to match the terms.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Prohibits the addition of facility fees when healthcare services are not rendered on a hospital campus.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Requires that any private short-term disability insurance (STDI) carrier that bids to provide coverage to Rhode Island state employees must cover all eligible employees, regardless of age.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Authorizes pharmacists to order, perform and interpret CLIA-waived tests authorized by statewide protocol and prescribe medications, and permits coverage by all health insurance carriers.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

JOINT RESOLUTION AMENDING THE JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A PERMANENT LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON CHILD CARE IN RHODE ISLAND (Amends the membership of the permanent legislative commission on child care with twenty-seven (27) members to ensure that the state has high quality and affordable childcare and early learning services network.)

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Prohibits cities or towns that implement a rent control ordinance from raising property taxes and such prohibition would last for as long as the rent control ordinance is in effect.

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

Establishes minimum energy and water efficiency standards for appliance and specified equipment purchased or installed after January 1, 2025.

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Requires that the chief judge of the family court in appointing magistrates do so in accordance with the judicial selection and nomination process set forth in chapter 16.1 of title 8.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Provides amendments to procedures necessary for approval of transactions between utilities by giving the public utilities commission jurisdiction; mandates public hearings, allows intervention by any interested party and provides for appeal.

Sponsor: Arthur Handy

Requires insurance companies to prove that a healthcare service or procedure is not medically necessary.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Ensures any public school with available seats, after completion of the initial enrollment period for students, shall make all open seats available to other students residing within the same school district.

Sponsor: Anthony DeSimone

Allows municipalities to request a one-time, state-approved extension to update comprehensive plans if they show active progress, while keeping the existing plan in effect during the extension period.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Authorizes the collection of a small additional fee, in addition to the registration fee paid by motorboat owners, to be deposited in a restricted account, in order to fund the newly established freshwater lake management program.

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Allows the town of Johnston to receive a one-half (1/2) credit for affordable housing units for manufactured homes in age restricted communities in conformance with all zoning laws and/or ordinances of the town.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Requires quarterly reading of electric and gas meters.

Sponsor: David Morales

Establishes the “Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Act” that would position Rhode Island as a forward-thinking leader in blockchain innovation by giving DAOs clear legal status as limited liability companies.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Allows customers to directly take single-use plastic straws from food service establishments.

Sponsor: Jon Brien

Requires insurers to pay electronic claims for healthcare coverage within 14 calendar days of receipt. Permits healthcare providers to dispute claim denials within 60 days and empowers the secretary of EOHHS to establish penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Marie Hopkins

Eliminates mandated housing densities/density bonuses for public drinking water supply watersheds/groundwater. Requires densities not exceed water availability, introduce pollution, stay within public water or sewer system capacity limits.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Charges the office of the health insurance commissioner to incorporate uncompensated care as a formula-driven numeric adjustment in the methodology used to establish any affordability standard or rate cap, applicable to hospital contracts.

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Requires that the electric distribution company and the commission promulgate tariffs to address interconnection of energy storage systems and to provide compensation for at least 100 mega watts of energy storage systems sited in the state.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Allows for food and food supplies procurement by the state of less than $25,000 in aggregate under the small purchase regulations.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Provides technical amendments relating to comprehensive planning and land use, subdivision of land, zoning ordinances and moderate-income housing.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

Reduces funeral home inspections from twice a year to once a year and removes the practical exam requirement for out-of-state funeral directors and embalmers.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Requires the development of a comprehensive collaborative course that provides students with accurate information and instruction on risks of wildfires while creating action plan to mitigate loss in case of a wildfire in all K-12 schools within the state.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Requires that any new residential construction shall have a minimum of two means of egress consisting of standard exterior doors.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Defines a special assessment as an assessment that is not a part of the condominium association budget and would apply to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, but only apply with respect to events and circumstances occurring after that date.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Amends unfair discrimination statutes to encompass more protected categories and protect against additional forms of discrimination.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Directs the public utilities commission to establish a standardized framework for determining authorized common equity ratios and authorized rates of returns on equity for public utilities.

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Provides for the authorized taking of mushrooms from lands under control of the DEM for personal use.

Sponsor: David Place

Extends certain protocols applicable to motor vehicle manufacturers to their distributors and factory branches, as well as updates warranty reimbursement and recall obligation policies.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Adds criminal penalties for operation of a motor vehicle after a suspension for lack of physical or mental fitness, or as a result of frequency of offenses pursuant to § 31-11-7 (a)(1)(i) or as result of a court ordered suspension.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Prohibits RIPTA from using state funds or the proceeds of any bond(s) to pay for any work performed after 8/1/26, pursuant to the “transit center joint development project” RFP and/or pursuant to related the preliminary services agreement.

Sponsor: Samuel Bell

Allows for the issuance of a Class B or Class BV liquor license for the property located at 186 Wayland Avenue in the city of Providence.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Requires Rhode Island Medicaid to cover services provided by licensed certified professional midwives and to collect utilization and cost data, while allowing limits consistent with Medicaid rules.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Creates three (3) new awards for Rhode Island National Guard members and would provide eligibility for the Rhode Island star for certain civilian government employees and military and civilian leaders of foreign governments.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE STATE TO ENTER INTO A FINANCING AGREEMENT RELATING TO SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION IN THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO FINANCE RENOVATIONS AND REPAIRS TO SAMUEL SLATER MIDDLE SCHOOL FACILITIES, OR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL AND SCHOOL FACILITIES AND ALL EXPENSES INCIDENT THERETO INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COSTS OF DESIGN, DEMOLITION, ATHLETIC FIELDS, LANDSCAPING AND PARKING BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $22,500,000 CITY BONDS, CITY NOTES AND/OR OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR (Joint resolution authorizes the city of Pawtucket to issue bonds for school renovations.)

Sponsor: Meghan Kallman

Requires oil spill responsible fee from 5 cents to 10 cents. Funds to support climate change initiatives.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Establishes a performance audit division within the office of the auditor general.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Requires landlords who rent shoreline property to provide their tenants, before the start of the tenancy, with a detailed, written disclosure regarding their shoreline access rights.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

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

Sponsor: Scott Slater

Establishes the criminal offense of real estate title fraud. Allows municipalities to refuse to record “suspicious documents” from persons who are not trusted submitters. Also creates penalties for real estate title fraud.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Increases the fees charged for filings and writs of execution in the district court, superior court and family court.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Directs the division of motor vehicles to create a special plate for individuals in the manufacturing industry.

Sponsor: Leonidas Raptakis

Requires agencies preparing economic impact statements for small businesses contain findings that the anticipated compliance costs of a proposed rule scale proportionally with the business size, and do not impose fixed costs that favor larger businesses.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Amends the jury list and jury qualification statutes to add individuals receiving public assistance benefits.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $10,000,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER INITIATIVE (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $10,000,000 to the Rhode Island Department of Health Community Health Worker Initiative.)

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Provides that stores offering food product discounts must provide the same discounts to in-store customers that are offered to customers using electronic digital coupons.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

In effect repeals the provisions of the newly enacted law prohibiting smoking in pari mutual facilities with the exception for businesses operating as a pari mutual facility smoking lounge.

Sponsor: Teresa Tanzi

Provides that in local education 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: Stephen Casey

Effective July 1, 2026, annually allocates twenty percent (20%) of available proceeds in the Rhode Island highway maintenance account to RIPTA for operating expenses.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Prohibits a healthcare provider from requiring patients to provide electronic payment information to be kept on file as a condition to receiving treatment and makes it a violation a deceptive trade practice.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Expands the definition of operator to anyone who enables customers to purchase virtual currency. Expands the definition of a transaction to include a digital product or application where payment is made in person or through a third party intermediary.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

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

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Provides for distribution of payment of certain civil penalties for violations of overweight vehicle laws.

Sponsor: Paul Santucci

Prohibits warrantless purchases of personal data in connection with any criminal, civil, or other investigatory or enforcement activity.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Provides proper authority for the division of taxation to provide HSRI with contact information for Rhode Islanders who report they were uninsured on their RI state income tax return.

Sponsor: Joshua Giraldo

Creates the joint committee of the repealer for a term of six (6) years to compile suggestions for repeal of certain statutes, regulations, and executive orders.

Sponsor: Thomas Paolino

Establishes the Super Speeder Accountability Act to be used as a sentencing option or enhancement for drivers charged with certain driving violations.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

HOUSE RESOLUTION AMENDING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE YEARS 2025 AND 2026 (Amends the House rules to mandate that all lobbyists vacate the House floor twenty (20) minutes prior to the beginning of the scheduled House session.)

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

Raises the minimum threshold contract price before public works contractors are required to pay prevailing wages to their employees, from $1,000 to $100,000.

Sponsor: Frank Ciccone

Provides an exemption for non-insulated, non-winterized property used by the taxpayer, not located in a substandard area, and continuously owned by the taxpayer for twenty-five (25) years.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Creates a state program and fund to finance adaptive reuse and mixed-use housing projects, requires affordable units and labor standards, and provides oversight to expand housing until 2035.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Requires health insurers to comply with federal mental health parity laws, prevent discriminatory treatment limits, and ensures meaningful mental health and substance use coverage in all benefit classifications.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Establishes statewide standards governing electric meter reading and billing practices.

Sponsor: Samuel Zurier

Increases the fines for certain traffic offenses to one hundred dollars ($100) and adds fines of one hundred dollars ($100) for offenses required by law but omitted from the schedule.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Requires the state to reimburse the Exeter fire and rescue departments for seventy-five percent (75%) of the cost of any call made to state property

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Expand eligibility for the childcare assistance program to meet the federal eligibility benchmark.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Ensures any public school with available seats, after completion of the initial enrollment period for students, shall make all open seats available to other students residing within the same school district.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

Provides a tax credit to a taxpayer that makes a qualified investment in a qualified business.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Requires Medicaid to provide coverage for fertility medication, care, and services, for at least 3 cycles of fertility treatment, and intrauterine insemination.

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Amends the Law Enforcement Officers’ Due Process, Accountability, and Transparency Act" by changing the provision for payment of legal fees.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Requires licensed retailers authorized to sell intoxicating beverages to provide a lid to a consumer upon request.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Enhances and further defines the role of the board of trustees of the University of Rhode Island. This act would also provide a more efficient procurement process for the university.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

Removes funding requirement from department of elementary and secondary education.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Allows a minor between the ages of 14 -17 without a permanent residence/in custody of the DCYF to get state identification card without a signature from parent, guardian or foster parent as well as a certified copy of minor's birth certificate at no cost.

Sponsor: Brian Newberry

Provides for the re-employment of public safety retirees under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Amends the definition of abandoned property by imposing the requirement that the building owner be notified of the violation and has failed to address such violations in the timeframes set forth in the notice of violation or court order.

Sponsor: June Speakman

Prohibits a peace officer, as defined in § 12-7-21, from employing threats, physical harm, deprivation, deception, coercion, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics during the custodial interrogation of a juvenile.

Sponsor: Cherie Cruz

Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Prohibits restrictive covenants related to grocery stores.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

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: Jacob Bissaillon

Makes it permissible for any student, professor, or other employee of any public or private college or university, to carry, possess and have in their custody, possession and/or under their control, a stun-gun or pepper spray for purposes of self-defense.

Sponsor: Marie Hopkins

Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and help control health care costs, which would be referred to as, "the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (RICHIP).

Sponsor: David Morales

Provides that retirees in the state pension system receive cost of living adjustments compounded into the retiree’s total retirement benefits each year beginning January 1, 2026. This act would be prospective only.

Sponsor: Patricia Serpa

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

Sponsor: John Burke

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

Increases fines for speeding in residential or school zones.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

Establishes a statewide "healthy school meals for all" universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.

Sponsor: Lammis Vargas

Amends the process for creating and governing project labor agreements (“PLA”).

Sponsor: John Burke

Amends the workers' compensation reimbursement provisions related to the liability of third person for damages.

Sponsor: Stefano Famiglietti

Establishes guidelines, rules and regulations for the implementation and expansion of prekindergarten education programs for children ages 3-4 to increase children’s school readiness statewide.

Sponsor: Joseph McNamara

Establishes a statewide mobile response and stabilization services program to provide rapid crisis response and short-term stabilization for children and youth in their natural environments.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Expands the benefit definitions to include a grandchild and care recipient and increases benefits period to 10 weeks for 2027 and 12 weeks for 2028 and provides a TDI/TCI opt-in option for self-employed workers.

Sponsor: Valarie Lawson

Under the emergency fund for victims, increases the share of a victim’s total award that may be used for relocation related expenses but not increase total compensation available to a victim.

Sponsor: Grace Diaz

Enhances and further defines the role of the board of trustees of the University of Rhode Island. This act would also provide a more efficient procurement process for the university.

Sponsor: Susan Sosnowski

Authorizes judges to issue electronic warrants for DUI offenses under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Thomas Noret

Establishes an opportunity for employee ownership where the owner notifies all current full-time and part-time employees and provides them with a 30-day window in which to initiate a process to potentially purchase the business as a workers' cooperative.

Sponsor: Jennifer Stewart

Removes the requirement that 5% of the hotel tax generated from the South County tourism district be paid to the Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING THE IMMIGRANT IMPACT TASK FORCE (Creates an 11-member task force to track and oversee immigration enforcement and support actions in Rhode Island, and who would report back to the General Assembly House no later than January 5, 2027, and whose life would expire on March 5, 2027.)

Sponsor: Tiara Mack

Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Repeals 42-56-38.1 and requires the department of corrections to provide free communication services to inmates and juveniles held in residential placement or detention centers and requires that those facilities provide in-person contact visits.

Sponsor: Leonela Felix

Ensures that the State of Rhode Island adopt the protections afforded under the Occupational Safety and Health Act if its scope or enforcement capacity is diminished.

Sponsor: Deborah Fellela

Disqualifies individuals with prior felony convictions from purchasing or possessing a firearm.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Increases the fines for certain traffic offenses to one hundred dollars ($100) and adds fines of one hundred dollars ($100) for offenses required by law but omitted from the schedule.

Sponsor: Peter Appollonio

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

Sponsor: Gordon Rogers

Prohibits a peace officer, as defined in § 12-7-21, from employing threats, physical harm, deprivation, deception, coercion, or psychologically manipulative interrogation tactics during the custodial interrogation of a juvenile.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Allows customers to directly take single-use plastic straws from food service establishments.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Defines "military-connected student" and permits military-connected students to enroll by remote registration upon presentation of military orders confirming the parent or guardian be stationed in this state during the current or following school year.

Sponsor: Samuel Azzinaro

Requires the state and private health insurers to reimburse claims for healthcare services provided by nurse practitioners and physician assistants at the same amount as the reimbursement paid to a physician performing the service in the area served.

Sponsor: Julie Casimiro

Requires shooting ranges to post signs in any area in which shooting occurs that contain the following language: “WARNING: If you or a loved one is experiencing distress and/or depression, call the 988 Suicide and Crisis hotline or text “HOME” to 741741”.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Eliminates mandated housing densities/density bonuses for public drinking water supply watersheds/groundwater. Requires densities not exceed water availability, introduce pollution, stay within public water or sewer system capacity limits.

Sponsor: Victoria Gu

Increases the time that mortgage foreclosure notices are required to be provided to active military service members, from nine (9) months to one year, after completion of their active duty.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Precludes a legal entity from owning property whose value is over $25,000,000. If the property value exceeds $25,000,000, then the entity must divest a graduated yearly amount over the next 10 years, until value is less than $25,000,000.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

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

Sponsor: Jennifer Boylan

Allows the personal representative of a decedent’s estate to discharge the estate tax lien by recording with decedent’s municipality, a statement stating decedent’s gross estate does not require a state or federal estate tax filing pursuant to §44-22-1.1.

Sponsor: Michael Chippendale

Requires condominium associations to conduct structural surveys and reserve studies, fund reserves at 15%, and plan for repairs.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

Repeals the provisions of § 34-7-4 regarding rights of footway being acquired by adverse possession.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Requires insurance companies to prove that a healthcare service or procedure is not medically necessary.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Enlarges definitions of prohibited acts that constitute hazing, make principals, coaches, athletic directors and others responsible for knowingly failing to take reasonable measures to prevent hazing and punishes serious injury.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Prohibits the imposition of fees associated with home modifications that are specifically required to accommodate a veteran’s disability.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Assesses a fee of one cent ($0.01) per every ten thousand (10,000) gallons of wastewater treatment facility effluent discharge.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Requires those with a public records request to provide identifying information.

Sponsor: Earl Read

Eliminates fingerprinting fees for licensed childcare hires, require background checks for youth activity instructors, and allow active TS/SCI clearance to satisfy criminal background check requirements.

Sponsor: Maryann Shallcross-Smith

Limits the provisions related to prepayment of real estate mortgages to those mortgage loans made for real estate containing owner occupied dwelling houses of not more than four dwelling units.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Requires correctional staff to wear and activate body cameras, set rules for recording and access, create an independent oversight board, mandate training and reporting, and establish a grant funded pilot program.

Sponsor: David Morales

Ends transaction fees for school lunches in all districts. This act requires at least one no-fee payment method for school lunches and a full disclosure whether fees will be charged by a payment platform.

Sponsor: Justine Caldwell

Clarifies that a magistrate or sentencing judge sitting in a court with jurisdiction over alcohol-related offenses shall, upon request, immediately grant a conditional hardship license after imposing a ninety (90) day hardship loss of license.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Proposes a bond measure authorizing the State of Rhode Island to issue up to $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds, subject to voter approval, to fund coastal preparedness and resilience projects.

Sponsor: Tina Spears

Create a tick control program to be implemented by the department of environmental management.

Sponsor: Alana DiMario

Amends the determination of the state's share statute by amending the calculation for the poverty loss stabilization fund.

Sponsor: Justine Caldwell

Creates The Rhode Island Veterans Home Staffing Support Act of 2026.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Directs the RITBA design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority. Any newly constructed bridges with a deck height of over one hundred feet (100 ft) would be required to have safety barriers of safety netting.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Requires that locksmiths in Rhode Island must be licensed and have passed a criminal background check.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Amends current law on controlled substances to permit psilocybin to be cultivated within a person's residence for personal use and contingent on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program, mandates that RI DOH establishes rules regulations.

Sponsor: Brandon Potter

Prohibits unilateral modification of healthcare provider contracts.

Sponsor: Mia Ackerman

Changes the assessment for residential property where forty percent (40%) of the dwellings are below eighty percent (80%) of statewide median income and thirty percent (30%) are below sixty percent (60%).

Sponsor: David Morales

Imposes strict identity disclosure requirements for those who incur expenditures for the production of ballot advocacy communications and political advertisements.

Sponsor: Brian Newberry

Adds the town of Tiverton to those towns specifically named to tax any person for either a mobile or manufactured home and automatically lien the a mobile or manufactured home.

Sponsor: John Edwards

Protects Rhode Island natural forests by banning extractive and even-age logging on state lands and preserves, allowing only limited safety, invasive removal, or selection management after review, hearings, and fines for violations.

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Adds the doctrine of assumption of risk to the current comparative negligence statute.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY THE RHODE ISLAND CONDOMINIUM ACT (Creates a special legislative commission to study the Rhode Island condominium act.)

Sponsor: June Speakman

Names the India Point Park Overpass pedestrian bridge as the "Joseph M. Lima Overpass" to honor the former Deputy Majority Leader's legislative achievements and his lifelong dedication to the Portuguese-American community.

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $50,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (DEM) FOR NEW FORESTRY HOSES (Appropriates the sum of $50,000 to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM).)

Sponsor: Megan Cotter

Increases reimbursement caps promulgated in 2018 and applies to eligible costs for library projects incurred from June 30, 2025 through June 30, 2031, or ending earlier if the Office of Library Information Services amends the regulations.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Provides additional oversight and reporting measures related to audits and capital projects.

Sponsor: Alex Marszalkowski

Creates the RI Pedestrian Safety Act allows cities and town to use automated safety monitoring which a civil fine of $50 for violations.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HIGHER GROUND INTERNATIONAL TO SUPPORT THEIR CRITICAL WORK SUPPORTING IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEE POPULATIONS (Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to Higher Ground International, to support their mission of supporting immigrants and refugee populations.)

Sponsor: Scott Slater

JOINT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE STATE TO ENTER INTO A FINANCING AGREEMENT RELATING TO SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION IN THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PAWTUCKET TO FINANCE RENOVATIONS AND REPAIRS TO SAMUEL SLATER MIDDLE SCHOOL FACILITIES, OR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL AND SCHOOL FACILITIES AND ALL EXPENSES INCIDENT THERETO INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COSTS OF DESIGN, DEMOLITION, ATHLETIC FIELDS, LANDSCAPING AND PARKING BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $22,500,000 CITY BONDS, CITY NOTES AND/OR OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS THEREFOR (Authorizes bonds to finance school construction in the city of Pawtucket.)

Sponsor: Mary Messier

JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $150,000 TO THE MAIN STREET RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM (This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to the Main Street Rhode Island Program.)

Sponsor: Lori Urso

Allows the holder of a manufacturer’s license to sell one-sixth of a barrel keg or any otherwise permitted vessel containing no more than the amount of malt beverage allowed.

Sponsor: Walter Felag

Increase the estate exemption to $5,000,000 for January 1, 2027, $7,500,000 for January 1, 2029, $10,000,000 for January 1, 2031. This act would eliminate the estate tax for decedents whose death occurs on or after January 1, 2033.

Sponsor: Robert Phillips

Establishes a food as medicine pilot program and task force to be administered by the executive office of health and human services.

Sponsor: Justine Caldwell

Authorizes the town of Johnston, if an aggregate of two hundred fifty (250) or more units should be proposed in comprehensive permit project(s), to enact an emergency moratorium until the permit requirement of § 45-53-4 are amended.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Establishes the Residential and Commercial Property Acquisition Program Act to implement residential or commercial property acquisitions, paired with funding for relocation costs within or proximate to the current community.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Updates the state’s public accountancy act for consistency with the 9th edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act, as issued by NASBA and AICPA in July 2025.

Sponsor: Stephen Casey

Prohibits the imposition of a sentence of life without parole upon any person twenty-one (21) years of age or younger.

Sponsor: Jacob Bissaillon

JOINT RESOLUTION URGING THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TO STUDY AND REGULATE THE IMPACT OF WAKE BOATS ON RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC WATERWAYS (Urges DEM to study and regulate the impact of wake boats on Rhode Island public waterways.)

Sponsor: Jessica de la Cruz

Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.

Sponsor: Robert Britto

Provides the board of trustees with tort claim protections and calls upon the board to undertake a feasibility study related to operations of the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center and the Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission.

Sponsor: Kathleen Fogarty

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, 2027.

Sponsor: Jenni Azanero Furtado

Makes assault with intent to commit murder punishable by no less than ten years and not more than forty years and the person would not be afforded the benefit of suspension or deferment of sentence or probation.

Sponsor: Joseph Solomon

Creates a publicly funded program for uninsured individuals requiring on an appropriation of $53,200,000 for fiscal year 2027 and an appropriation of 109,600,000 for fiscal year 2028 and every fiscal year thereafter.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Creates rodent integrated pest management pilot programs for municipalities that choose to participate. Reports to be approved by the municipality's mayor or administrator and submitted to the department of environmental management.

Sponsor: Rebecca Kislak

Creates legal cause of action for persons/insurers to recover losses resulting from climate disaster against petroleum product producers based upon strict liability for deceptive/false statements as to climate impacts.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

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

Creates the "Organics Diversion at Catered Events Act" to require caterers to submit an annual diversion plan for food and organic waste to the department of environmental management for approval prior to permitting for covered events.

Sponsor: Lauren Carson

Changes the definition of owner to exclude the state and municipalities for the purposes of liability limitations relating to public use of private lands.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

Places a cap of twenty percent (20%) on increases in consecutive revaluations of real property in all cities and towns conducting revaluations commencing December 31, 2026, and every December 31 thereafter.

Sponsor: Ramon Perez

Moves North Kingstown from the third division of the district court to the fourth division to better balance case workloads among the divisions.

Sponsor: Robert Craven

Allows for sending of the notice under power of sale and rights of active military servicemembers by USPS First Class Mail and/or an overnight delivery service, instead of by USPS certified mail return receipt requested.

Sponsor: Matthew Dawson

Simplifies the assessment of filing fees required to appeal from small claims and consumer matters adjudicated by the district court.

Sponsor: Susan Donovan

Creates a medical malpractice tribunal that would screen medical malpractice actions before such actions could proceed in superior court.

Sponsor: George Nardone

For purposes of the judicial security act permits an authorized agent to file a written notice with a state, county, or municipal agency on behalf of a protected individual.

Sponsor: Hagan McEntee

Provides that a certificate be provided for every contract for the purchase and sale of real estate certifying that the property has a functioning on-site wastewater treatment system or a sewer connection and not a cesspool.

Sponsor: Michelle McGaw

Authorizes the department of environmental management to issue and enforce rules and regulations to implement and enforce the provisions of the food waste ban.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Creates "the Rhode Island clean air preservation act."

Sponsor: Evan Shanley

Provides that cities or towns may, by ordinance, designate "special ways" throughout the city or town which would be subject to alternative regulations to preserve its cultural, historic or scenic character.

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

JOINT RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY SLUDGE MANAGEMENT IN RHODE ISLAND (Creates a 19-member joint commission to study and provide recommendations for effective sludge management, and who would report back to the General Assembly by January 5, 2027, and would expire on March 5, 2027.)

Sponsor: Terri-Denise Cortvriend

Provides that all kratom products for sale would be stored and kept in a locked case, until sold.

Sponsor: Pamela Lauria

Changes how voter are notified of elections and vote registration deadlines, and local board questions.

Sponsor: Andrew Dimitri

Entitles disabled and military voters to utilize electronically transmitted ballots.

Sponsor: William O'Brien

Requires all write-in votes, regardless of qualification, to be reported and published by the state board of elections, on its website.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Expands the jurisdiction of the city of Warwick municipal court.

Sponsor: Mark McKenney

Requires that an independent forensic audit of the department of transportation be commissioned by the attorney general.

Sponsor: Charlene Lima

Sets a clear and enforceable standard for reducing the presence of harmful metals in personal care products, prioritizing public health through testing, labeling, and the development of safer alternatives.

Sponsor: Lori Urso

Makes persons who were convicted of crimes forty or more years ago eligible to have their records expunged, with certain exceptions.

Sponsor: Charlene Lima

Requires pharmacy benefit managers to provide medical justification for denying any claim for prescription drug benefits.