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Creates the Rhode Island voting rights act to establish procedures to prevent discrimination in the voting process.
This bill would create a Rhode Island Voting Rights Act, establishing a set of state-level rules and procedures designed to protect people from discrimination when voting or participating in elections.
Converts the Rhode Island Hope Scholarship Pilot Program Act into a continuing scholarship program at Rhode Island College, similar to the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship at the Community College of Rhode Island.
This bill would take an existing temporary scholarship program at Rhode Island College (RIC) and make it permanent.
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.
This bill would require Rhode Island's Department of Health to create and run a formal tobacco control program.
Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.
This bill would give Rhode Island correctional officers — people who work guarding and supervising inmates in state prisons and jails — access to a specific type of retiree health insurance benefit when they leave their jobs.
Provides that certain actions taken by pharmacy benefits managers are deceptive or unfair trade practices.
This bill targets pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) — the companies that act as middlemen between insurance companies, pharmacies, and drug manufacturers.
Expands foster care academic youth reports to include information regarding 504 eligibility, graduation progress and surrogate parents. The act would require implementation of additional strategies to improve performance and additional progress reports.
This bill would expand the academic progress reports that schools are required to create for young people in the foster care system.
HOUSE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT A CONDITION PRECEDENT BE PLACED ON ALL FUTURE STATE FUNDING OR GRANT ASSISTANCE TO BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES TO ENSURE MAINTENANCE OF THE NEWPORT HOSPITAL BIRTHING CENTER (This resolution would condition the distribution of any state funds to Brown University Health on the continued operation of a birthing center in the city of Newport.)
This resolution asks the Rhode Island state government to attach a condition to any future funding or grants given to Brown University Health (the hospital system that operates Newport Hospital): the money would only flow if Brown University Health keeps a birthing center — a facility where mothers can give birth and receive maternity care — up and running in the city of Newport.
Authorizes the Superior Court to place a hospital into receivership upon action by the attorney general or department of health when a hospital is mismanaged, financially distressed, acting illegally, or endangering patient health and safety.
This bill would give Rhode Island's Superior Court the power to place a hospital under receivership — a legal arrangement where an outside manager (called a receiver) is appointed to take control of an organization — when serious problems arise.
Grants the town council of the town of Hopkinton the authority to confer jurisdiction to the municipal court to hear and determine appeals from decisions of the Chief of Police related to the return of seized firearms.
This bill would give the Hopkinton Town Council the power to authorize the town's municipal court to handle a specific type of legal appeal.
Increases and reallocates the fees collected for motor vehicle inspections, including motorcycle inspections, with an allocation of ten dollars ($10.00) to the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA).
This bill would change how much Rhode Island drivers pay for their annual motor vehicle inspections and how that money is distributed.
Provides that no contract between a dental plan or other healthcare entity and a dentist requires the dentist to accept exclusively by virtual credit cards.
This bill is about how dentists get paid by insurance companies and other healthcare organizations.
JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $100,000 FOR THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION ON PREJUDICE & BIAS (This resolution would appropriate the sum of $100,000 to the Rhode Island Commission on Prejudice and Bias.)
This bill is a joint resolution that would set aside $100,000 in state funds for the Rhode Island Commission on Prejudice and Bias.
Creates an enhanced penalty defined as "road rage" to be applied in addition to penalties for convictions of certain motor vehicle offenses.
This bill, known as "Casey's Law," would create a new legal category called "road rage" in Rhode Island.
Requires landlords to provide a receipt upon receiving a cash payment for rent from a tenant.
This bill would require landlords in Rhode Island to give their tenants a written receipt whenever a tenant pays rent in cash.
Permits the town council of the town of New Shoreham to enact an ordinance that limits a license holder from renting or leasing more than thirty-four (34) motorized bicycles, motor scooters and/or motorized tricycles.
This bill would give the town council of New Shoreham — a small Rhode Island island community better known as Block Island — the legal authority to pass a local ordinance limiting how many motorized bikes, scooters, and motorized tricycles any single rental business can offer to customers.
Exempts from sales tax the amount paid for a parking space at municipally operated beach parking in the town of Middletown.
This bill would create a sales tax exemption specifically for parking fees paid at beach parking lots that are owned and operated by the town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
Adds the doctrine of assumption of risk to the current comparative negligence statute.
This bill would add a legal concept called "assumption of risk" to Rhode Island's existing rules about who is responsible when someone gets hurt.
AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF JAMESTOWN TO FUND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $3,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR
This bill would give the Town of Jamestown, Rhode Island the authority to borrow up to $3 million by issuing government bonds to fund affordable housing projects in the community.
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.
This bill deals with what happens when a resident of an assisted living community has to leave temporarily — for example, to go to a hospital or rehabilitation center.
Increases historic tax credit to 30%, and up to 35%, depending on the amount of rental area available for multi-family housing, affordable rental units and units sold as affordable housing.
This bill would increase the tax credit available to developers and property owners who restore or rehabilitate historic buildings in Rhode Island.
HOUSE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING "NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION DAY" ON JANUARY 9, 2026
This is a House Resolution from the Rhode Island state legislature formally recognizing January 9, 2026 as "National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.
HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE LAWRENCE FERGUSON
This is a House Resolution from the Rhode Island state legislature expressing official condolences on the death of Lawrence Ferguson, who is referred to as "the Honorable," indicating he previously held a public office or position of distinction.
HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ALAN GEOFFREY HASSENFELD
This is a House Resolution from the Rhode Island General Assembly expressing official condolences on the death of Alan Geoffrey Hassenfeld.
Repeals the collateral source rule in medical malpractice actions.
This bill would change how medical malpractice lawsuits work in Rhode Island by eliminating what's known as the "collateral source rule.