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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.
This Rhode Island bill would make it illegal to sell over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements to anyone under 18 years old.
Provides an update to certain insurance sections of law to update or eliminate outdated sections of the insurance law.
This bill is essentially a housekeeping measure for Rhode Island's insurance laws.
Requires that certain data centers requiring large amounts of electricity be required to fund the cost of necessary infrastructure improvements to supply such electricity.
This bill would require large data centers in Rhode Island to pay for the electrical infrastructure upgrades needed to power their facilities, rather than having those costs spread across all utility customers.
Extends certain protocols applicable to vehicle manufacturers to their distributors and factory branches, updates definitions relative to common entities and sales.
This bill updates Rhode Island's rules governing how car manufacturers, distributors, and dealers do business with each other.
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.
This bill would prevent large public utilities in Rhode Island — those serving more than 100,000 customers — from passing certain business expenses on to their customers through their utility rates.
Prohibits unauthorized placement of merchants on advertising platform order interfaces, and would prohibit third-party restaurant reservation services.
This bill would place new restrictions on third-party platforms — like food delivery apps or online reservation services — that list restaurants and other merchants on their websites or apps.
Provides that only a mayor or town administrator could be a voting member of the board of directors or trustees for a mayoral academy.
This bill would change the rules about who can have voting power on the governing boards of mayoral academies in Rhode Island.
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.
This bill would place a new restriction on charter school growth in Rhode Island by prohibiting the approval of any new charter school application that would create or expand a "network charter school.
Updates the description of the early intervention program and the agency responsible for the program under Part C of the federal Individuals with disabilities education act.
This bill updates Rhode Island state law to reflect the current name and description of the state's early intervention program — a program that provides developmental services to infants and toddlers (typically children from birth to age 3) who have disabilities or developmental delays.
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.
This bill would place a freeze on the creation and expansion of charter schools in Rhode Island.
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".
This bill, known as the "Save Women's Sports Act," would require all athletic teams sponsored by public schools — and private schools that compete against public schools — to be officially labeled in one of three ways: as a "male," "men's," or "boys'" team; a "female," "women's," or "girls'" team; or a "coed" or "mixed" team.
Requires schools to implement a plan to provide academic accommodation for a student who has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
This bill would require Rhode Island schools to create and follow a specific plan to help students who have been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury continue their education while they recover.
Establishes the Beverage Container Recycling Act.
This bill would create a new recycling program in Rhode Island commonly known as a "bottle bill" or deposit-return system.
Places a moratorium on net metering contracts, subsidies for heat pumps and long-term contracts for the purchasing of solar or wind energy.
This bill would temporarily pause three specific clean energy programs in Rhode Island: net metering contracts, subsidies for heat pumps, and long-term government contracts for purchasing solar or wind energy.
Updates the RI coordinate system to adopt the most recent system of plane coordinates established by the NGS, a federal agency which is part of NOAA and the USDC. Modifies the meter to foot conversion to adopt the international foot to provide uniformity.
This bill updates Rhode Island's official geographic coordinate system — the mathematical framework used to precisely describe locations on maps and land surveys within the state.
Amends the Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024 by clarifying enforcement provisions.
This bill makes changes to a Rhode Island law called the Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024, which was passed to restrict the use of PFAS chemicals in consumer products.
Amend the state’s online E-Permitting Portal using automated plan review and instant permit issuance.
This bill would update Rhode Island's existing online permitting system to make it faster and more automated, specifically for solar energy projects.
Requires that a backflow test be performed every ten (10) years, rather than the current yearly inspection.
This bill would change how often backflow prevention devices connected to public drinking water systems need to be tested in Rhode Island.
Allows local government recipients of grant funds from the Rhode Island infrastructure bank's OSCAR fund and resilient Rhode Island infrastructure fund to use monies for insurability planning.
This bill expands how local governments in Rhode Island can spend money they receive from two existing grant programs managed by the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank: the OSCAR fund and the Resilient Rhode Island Infrastructure Fund.
Excludes nuclear power from the office of energy resources and division of public utilities from participation, procuring and entering into long-term contracts.
This bill would change Rhode Island's existing Affordable Clean Energy Security Act by specifically preventing the state's Office of Energy Resources and the Division of Public Utilities from including nuclear power in their energy planning activities.
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.
This bill would require health insurance companies — both private insurers and state-run health programs — to pay nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) the same amount they pay doctors when both are performing the same medical service.
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.
This bill makes a college scholarship program in Rhode Island permanent.
Establishes a tax credit for businesses transitioning to employee ownership.
This bill would create a tax credit in Rhode Island for businesses that convert to an employee-owned structure.
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.
This bill would create a new state-funded health coverage program specifically for Rhode Island residents who do not have health insurance.