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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
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| H5025 | Provides that the trapping and subsequent release of any unowned feral or free roaming cat for the purpose of spaying or neutering of the cat would not be considered abandonment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/13/2025 |
| H5046 | Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/15/2025 |
| H5069 | Prohibits any city or town from requiring an applicant for license to carry concealed firearm to provide a reason for their request other than those outlined in § 11-47-1. | Dead | 01/16/2025 |
| H5070 | Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/16/2025 |
| H5071 | Considers state government caseworkers or investigators "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials. | Dead | 01/16/2025 |
| H5072 | Permits those persons with felony convictions to have up to six misdemeanor offenses expunged from their criminal record. | Dead | 01/16/2025 |
| H5103 | Prohibits landlords from inquiring about an applicant's prior incarceration and from discriminating against those who have been released from prison. | Dead | 01/23/2025 |
| H5124 | Establishes Rhode Island First Step program requiring DOC to assist offenders with reintegration into society, counseling, medical care, education, early sentence termination or pre-release confinement for elderly and terminally ill offenders. | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5125 | Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint, including the enforcement remedy of a restraining order or other injunctive relief. | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5126 | Makes it a felony to price gouge prescriptions or pharmaceuticals in time of a shortage. | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5127 | Allows a tenant to pay an increased security deposit in monthly increments over the course of a twelve (12) month period. | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5128 | Makes any offense under this statute that could result in the death of an animal punishable by up to 3 years in prison, a fine of at least $1,000, or both, for each offense. | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5129 | Provides for a residency requirement of at least six (6) months rather than one year for the Rhode Island family court to have jurisdiction over a divorce complaint. | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5130 | Crime gun ballistic evidence to be submitted to NIBIN. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/22/2025 |
| H5131 | HOUSE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADDRESS CONCERNS IN THE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE TO INMATES AND INDIVIDUALS AWAITING TRIAL IN THE CUSTODY OF THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (RIDOC) (Creates a 9 member commission to study and make recommendations on the delivery of healthcare services at RIDOC, and who reports back to the House no later than January 5, 2026, and whose life would expire on March 5, 2026.) | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| H5177 | Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations, for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse, to thirty-five (35) years. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5178 | Allows expungement of multiple felony convictions for non-violent felonies10 years after sentence completed. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5179 | Amends calculations of interest in civil actions a rate determined by average accepted auction price for last auction of 52 week U.S. treasury bills. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5180 | Requires one elector of the parole board to be a person directly impacted by the criminal justice system who has completed the probation/parole process three (3) or more years prior to selection with a professional background in certain enumerated areas. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5181 | Modifies the summons for eviction for reasons other than nonpayment of rent with the district court, to add a certificate of service section, and provides the option to post the summons/complaint conspicuously on door of the defendant/tenant's dwelling. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5182 | 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. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5183 | Allows lane filtering, the act of passing stopped or slow-moving vehicles proceeding in the same direction, for motorcycles at low speeds. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5184 | Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of health care services, products, or devices. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/24/2025 |
| H5185 | Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the future. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/24/2025 |
| H5186 | Amends current law on controlled substances to permit psilocybin to be cultivated within a person's residence for personal use and contingent on the US FDA's program, mandate that RI department of health establish rules regulations. | Dead | 01/24/2025 |
| H5219 | Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5220 | Amends the comprehensive community-police relationship act of 2015 to require an annual study by an outside agency chosen by the department. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5221 | Comprehensively regulates the practices of third-party litigation financiers in Rhode Island. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5222 | Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime while residing on a military installation located in Rhode Island. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/29/2025 |
| H5223 | Provides a remedy for any harm caused due to deprivation or violation of rights secured by the Rhode Island Constitution due to acts of the State of Rhode Island. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5224 | Provides a civil cause of action for individuals injured by artificial intelligence. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5225 | Limits the ability for any federal immigration authority to investigate, detain, apprehend or arrest any individuals for potential violations of federal immigration laws without a judicial warrant within certain protected locations. | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5226 | HOUSE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO WITHDRAW CITIZENSHIP FROM CHILDREN BORN IN THE UNITED STATES TO UNDOCUMENTED PARENTS | Dead | 01/29/2025 |
| H5258 | Abolishes common law marriages entered into in this state on or after January 1, 2026, while recognizing the validity of any common law marriage entered into or adjudicated to exist before January 1, 2026. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5259 | Prohibits the suspension of any person’s operators’ or chauffeurs’ license or their vehicle registration unless upon conviction of driving offenses. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5260 | Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program pursuant to § 14-1-6 to children in the juvenile justice system and children who attain reunification prior to their eighteenth (18th) birthday, however, the reunification is not successful. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5261 | Permits, effective 7/1/25, the family court to make appropriate orders of support and education of any child who has attained 18 years of age, but not 21, who is domiciled in the home of a parent, and is principally dependent upon said parent for support. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5262 | 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. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5263 | Amends the heading of § 11-47-60.1 to include the words "Dillon's Law." | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5264 | Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually unless the landlord is granted an exemption by the secretary of housing and provides tenants with a civil action to recover damages, including an award of attorneys' fees/punitive damages, for violations. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5265 | Defines the apportionment of financial responsibilities for expenses and improvements to the real property of the life estate between the life tenant and remainder man. | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| H5295 | Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| H5296 | Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one year license suspension. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| H5297 | Sets standards and procedures to allow and implement conjugal visitation at state correctional facilities. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| H5298 | Prohibits any questioning of a juvenile who is suspected of delinquent or criminal behavior, unless the parent of guardian of the juvenile is present, or unless an attorney is present or the juvenile and their parents have waived their presence. | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| H5299 | Directs RIHousing to work with stakeholders to investigate and determine ways to assist an incorporated homeowners' association to exercise rights to purchase leased land. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| H5300 | Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| H5345 | Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program for all children in the care and custody of the state. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5346 | Prohibit the family court from detaining any juvenile or committing any juvenile, under the age of 12 years, to the training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault, or an attempt to commit such offenses. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5347 | Provides that all extended benefits offered by DCYF to foster children shall be extended to children placed in guardianship. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5348 | Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this chapter. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| H5349 | Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| H5350 | 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. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5357 | Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| H5358 | Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| H5359 | Requires law enforcement to obtain consent before placing audio or video recorders on the private property of another. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5360 | Requires search warrant for electronic information, prohibits stingray cell-site simulators. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5361 | Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5362 | RELATED TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- SENTENCING RECONSIDERATION ACT | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5363 | Prohibits civil asset forfeiture regarding violations of the controlled substances laws until a criminal conviction is obtained. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5364 | Amends notice requirements for self-storage facility before perfecting lien, to wit; 7 consecutive days of publication on a publicly accessible website or subsequent written notice to lessee, or publication once time in newspaper of general circulation. | Dead | 02/07/2025 |
| H5365 | Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her, or its individual capacity. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| H5436 | Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5437 | 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. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5438 | 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. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5439 | Mandates that the clerk of the district court, upon request of the defendant, automatically seal individual counts of criminal complaints upon dismissal pursuant to rule 48(a) of the rules of criminal procedure for district court. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5440 | Permits non-sworn public safety officers/security guards at private colleges/universities to detain individuals for no longer than 30 minutes within the campus’s jurisdiction if the officer or guard believes the person committed a criminal offense. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5441 | Reduces the time for expungements to three (3) years for a single misdemeanor and five (5) years for felonies and multiple misdemeanors. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5442 | 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. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5443 | Creates process for individual to voluntarily be either temporarily or indefinitely added to a list restricting their rights to purchase or possess firearms. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5444 | Defines slowing a vehicle for purposes of the “move over law” (§ 31-14-3) to mean twenty miles per hour (20 mph) under the posted speed limit. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5445 | Directs the office of law revision to identify, on a yearly basis, any decisions or holdings of the United States Supreme Court that would require amendments to any state statutes. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5446 | Permits a tenant, at the tenant’s expense, to implement energy conservation measures to any dwelling or dwelling unit such as removable weather-stripping around doors and windows. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5447 | Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil penalties for violations. | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| H5500 | Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care information. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| H5501 | Prohibits the courts from setting cash or surety bail on any misdemeanor offense but permits the court to set reasonable non-monetary conditions of bail to assure the defendant's presence in court as required and to protect the community. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| H5502 | Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| H5503 | Provides for just cause evictions for residential landlord tenancies. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| H5504 | Tenants with disabilities may request to keep an emotional support animals. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| H5537 | Provides that advanced practice registered nurses have the same immunity from liability as physicians and surgeons. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| H5637 | Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| H5638 | Provides for a single, increased range of penalties for all driving offenses which result in serious bodily injury or death. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5639 | Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| H5640 | Adds a provision in the statute relating to one way highways, providing an increased penalty when a motorist travels the wrong way on an interstate highway or an entrance or exit ramp connected to an interstate highway. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| H5641 | Simplifies the assessment of filing fees required to appeal from small claims and consumer matters adjudicated by the district court. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5642 | Provides amendments to the assessment of filing fees required to appeal from certain matters adjudicated by the district court. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5643 | Amends the law relating to casino crimes to be consistent with the advent of iGaming and the relevant age restrictions to participate in iGaming. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5644 | Provides penalties for second and subsequent violations of installing and possessing a vehicle with sun screening materials in violation of this section. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5645 | Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| H5646 | Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5647 | 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. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5648 | Requires sentencing court to consider whether defendant is parent of child, or caregiver of elderly, disabled or terminally ill person whose well-being would be adversely affected by the person's incarceration and if so, shall impose a non-jail sentence. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5649 | 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. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5650 | Prohibits family court from detaining or committing any youth, 12 years or younger, to training school, for any offense other than murder, first degree sexual assault, or an attempt to commit such offenses there is no other reasonable placement. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5651 | Allows access to juvenile criminal records in order to conduct firearm background checks. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5652 | Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5653 | Prohibits the licensing authority from imposing additional or stricter requirements than the department of attorney general as well as prohibiting said licensing authorities from imposing any fees, other than the fee required in § 11-47-12. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5654 | Prohibits local licensing authorities from issuing a concealed carry permit to out of state residents based on permits issued by authorities from other states or subdivisions. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5655 | Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5656 | Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than the participants receive anything of value. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5657 | Prohibits the division of motor vehicles from placing on a motorist's driving record, a traffic violation which fine has been paid no longer than thirty (30) days after its issuance. This procedure would only be utilized twice per year. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5658 | Permits the practice of lane splitting by motorcycles. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5659 | Provides for municipal and state police authorities to acquire and to utilize automated license plate readers. Further, the act identifies what data may be collected and in what ways the data can be used. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5660 | Allows on and after September 1, 2025, an owner of motor vehicle(s) to transfer ownership and registration of said vehicle on their death, by a certificate of title designation and requires DMV to amend title forms, to include transfer-on-death language. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5661 | Expands the statute of limitations with respect to any wrongful act resulting in the death of a child in utero or within six (6) months after the birth of the child, to ten (10) years after the death of the child. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5662 | Established crime of real estate title fraud and creates private cause of action. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5663 | Requires state law enforcement agencies to honor all detainer request from DHS and ICE. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5664 | Increases the membership of the state crime laboratory commission from five (5) to nine (9). The overseer and co-executive secretaries of the commission have been changed to the deans of URI's colleges of pharmacy and engineering. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5665 | Updates the Homeless Bill of Rights to add rules governing the interaction with encampments and include the right to access clean and sanitary conditions. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5666 | Mandates arming campus police at public higher educational institutions and includes campus police in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for the purposes of the "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights." | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5667 | Requires that all campus police officers be equipped with ballistic body armor. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5668 | Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| H5669 | Includes animal cruelty offenses to the domestic violence crimes committed by a family or household members against another. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5670 | Expands the definition of peace officers to include juvenile program workers and shift coordinators at the department of youth, children and families. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5671 | Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharrassment. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5672 | Establishes the rights of adoptive/foster children or those in guardianship, to have post-separation visitation with their siblings. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5673 | Establishes an equivalent training certification program at the municipal police academy. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5674 | Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information or proof of identity. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| H5675 | Prohibits a landlord from inquiring about the immigration status of a tenant subject to any federal laws or regulations, but may request financial information. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5676 | Limits residential rent increases to ten percent (10%) plus the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) annually. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5677 | 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. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| H5721 | Allows a landlord that did not obtain a lead certificate pursuant to the lead mitigation laws of chapter 128.1 of title 42 due to the fact that the state lacks the adequate resources to conduct inspections. | Dead | 02/27/2025 |
| H5724 | Prohibits state or municipality from contracts to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, and if such contract exists, it must end by July 1, 2026 and prohibits using public resources to detain those individuals. | Dead | 02/27/2025 |
| H5793 | Amends the provisions under which a city or town may exceed the maximum levy for the assessment of local taxes. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/27/2025 |
| H5794 | Provides technical amendments to the chapters on subdivision of land and zoning ordinances for towns and cities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/27/2025 |
| H5795 | Amends the administration requirements a zoning ordinance must provide and/or designate and would require that zoning certificates be issued within 20 days of the written request. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/27/2025 |
| H5888 | Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, would be punishable as a felony. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5889 | Allows a law enforcement agency to consider expunged records when issuing a license or permit to carry a pistol or revolver. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5890 | Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5891 | Disqualifies individuals with prior felony convictions from purchasing or possessing a firearm. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5892 | Protects the personal information of judicial officers and their immediate family members who serve or have served the RI unified judicial system, as well as judicial officers who reside in RI and who serve or have served in the federal courts. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/28/2025 |
| H5893 | Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5894 | Amends §§ 14-1-3 and 14-5-8, relating to possession of marijuana and proceedings in family court ensuring that children under 17 years of age in possession of less than 2 oz of marijuana are subject to the jurisdiction of the family court. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5895 | Requires submission of a domestic violence/sexual assault reporting form when the domestic violence response or investigation involves a verbal argument or dispute. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5896 | Provides that a hearing required before a judge or magistrate may adjudge a motorist in contempt for failure to comply with the court's orders regarding a conditional hardship license, and defines penalties for violation of a hardship/interlock order. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5897 | Amends the section of law relative to violations for driving after denial, revocation or suspension of a license and expands the list of offenses for which an unlicensed motorist would be in violation. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5898 | 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. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5899 | Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5900 | Distinguishes, in two separate subsections, a first offense for reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor, and a second or subsequent offense for reckless driving, which is a felony. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5901 | Provides additional exception to prohibition on usage of wireless communication device while driving and clarifies that use for purpose of navigation must be while the device is mounted or otherwise affixed to vehicle and not held in the motorist's hand. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/28/2025 |
| H5902 | Prohibits restrictive covenants related to grocery stores. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5903 | Repeals the collateral source rule in medical malpractice actions. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5904 | Provides that evidence of life or work expectancy shall be based on statistical data using blended statistics and shall not be based on race, ethnicity or sex. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5905 | Changes the definition of owner to exclude the state and municipalities for the purposes of liability limitations relating to public use of private lands. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5906 | Substitutes "housing resources commission" with "department of health" for lead hazard mitigation purposes. It also makes it easier for a property owner to release funds put into an escrow account, if needed to make required repairs or improvements. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5907 | Makes litigation loan agreements subject to state usury laws. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5908 | Provides for punitive damages in civil actions where there is willful or wanton conduct or a reckless disregard for health, safety and welfare. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5909 | Makes all causes of action based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child not subject to any statute of limitations whether the claim has lapsed or was previously time-barred. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5910 | Adds the doctrine of assumption of risk to the current comparative negligence statute. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5911 | Caps damages at $100,000 in tort actions against Rhode Island, cities, towns, or fire districts, except for willful misconduct or extreme recklessness. It also exempts them from § 9-21-10. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5912 | Provides for fair and reasonable charges for certain medical and health care services in civil actions. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5913 | Provides that an agreement resolving a patent infringement claim, in connection with the sale of a pharmaceutical product, is to be presumed to have anticompetitive effects if a nonreference drug filer receives anything of value. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5914 | Limits the recovery for personal injuries actions against any town to $3,000 retroactive to all causes of action arising after January 1, 2025, and prohibits the use of subsequent remedial measures in roadway/highway defect cases. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5915 | Exempts recovery claims for damages due to a town's neglect in maintaining highways or bridges from the provisions of chapter 31 of title 9 on governmental tort liability. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5916 | Increases the notification time about rent increases and termination of tenancy for month-to-month tenants. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5917 | Limits the mandatory rental registry to properties constructed prior to 1978, and further push out the effective date of registration to September 1, 2025, with the penalty clause becoming effective as of October 1, 2025. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5918 | Requires landlords of residential properties built before 1978 to register lead hazard mitigation information with the department of health and the information would be private and only accessible by specific entities. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5919 | Defines squatter as a person occupying a dwelling unit who is not authorized by the property owner, landlord or tenant to occupy the unit and provides remedies for property owner including police assistance to remove a squatter. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5920 | Amends the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5921 | 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. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5922 | 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. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5923 | Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5924 | Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5925 | 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. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5926 | Creates a cause of action for the intentional or negligent injury or death of a pet. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5927 | 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. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5928 | Establishes The Body Cameras for Correctional Facilities Act which mandates all department of corrections staff with direct supervision rolls to wear body cameras while on duty in their assigned facility. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5929 | 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. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5930 | Extends the range of a school zone for purposes of school-zone-speed-enforcement systems from one-quarter (1/4) mile to three-quarters (3/4) of a mile. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5931 | Repeals the section of law relating to suspension of operator licenses for failure to pay fines. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5932 | Increases the minimum claim amount necessary to require a matter involving motor vehicle liability be submitted to mandatory arbitration. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5933 | Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5934 | Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5935 | Expands firearm rights to recognize out of state carry permits, authorizes weapons carried during emergency evacuation and establishes an appeal process for permit denied. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5936 | Provides the review and appeal process for individuals applying for a permit or license to carry a handgun with the licensing authority or attorney general. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5937 | Adopts the uniform partition of heirs property act. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H5938 | Provides that enhanced penalties for possession of fentanyl shall only be applicable if the substance contains \ at least ten percent (10%) of fentanyl or its analogs. | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| H6026 | Amends the uniform controlled substances act and reclassifies simple possession of 28 grams or less of certain controlled substances as a misdemeanor. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| H6039 | Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any information concerning a child as the court may require. | Dead | 03/07/2025 |
| H6040 | Requires individuals seeking a judicial nomination to reapply to JNC every 3 years and make those individuals selected as finalists, eligible only for the court in which they applied and were chosen during the five years following their selection. | Dead | 03/07/2025 |
| H6041 | Requires the court to set reasonable bail for all those individuals who appear before it as probation violators and establish a presumption of personal recognizance unless the new alleged offense is a crime of violence as defined in the act. | Dead | 03/07/2025 |
| H6042 | Exempts certain U.S. employees from having to obtain state licenses to carry a visible or concealed pistol or revolver. | Dead | 03/07/2025 |
| H6063 | Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/12/2025 |
| H6064 | 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. | Dead | 03/12/2025 |
| H6089 | Increases the imprisonment penalty for animal fighting from 2 to 5 yrs for a subsequent conviction under § 4-1-9 and would also require mandatory community service | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| H6106 | Requires certain landlords to obtain insurance to cover alternate living accommodations for displaced tenants due to fire or disaster. | Dead | 03/21/2025 |
| H6110 | Removes the 5 year waiting period to seal court records where a civil action was dismissed, or there was a lack of prosecution, or the matter resolved and the terms of the resolution satisfied, removes the limit of 1 request to seal records every 5 years. | Dead | 03/19/2025 |
| H6120 | Grants the family court jurisdiction to make findings for special immigrant juvenile status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors/petitioners under 21 years of age. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/21/2025 |
| H6121 | Prohibits the civil arrest of any person who is attending court either on behalf of themselves or a family or household member. Any person who violates this act shall be subject to civil suit, and for contempt of court. | Dead | 03/21/2025 |
| H6122 | Protects against discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs and activities, even if there is a change in the federal law. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/21/2025 |
| H6133 | 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. | Dead | 03/26/2025 |
| H6134 | Allows the department of environmental management to acquire established foot paths by eminent domain in order to provide public access to streams, rivers, lakes and ponds. | Dead | 03/26/2025 |
| H6146 | Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person. | Dead | 03/28/2025 |
| H6147 | Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense. | Dead | 03/28/2025 |
| H6159 | Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/02/2025 |
| H6160 | Grants tenants that are the victim of various forms of abuse, including, but not limited to, sexual and domestic abuse and stalking, the right to terminate a lease agreement early without penalty or liability for rent. | Dead | 04/02/2025 |
| H6173 | Establishes the Rhode Island Anti-Bid-Rigging Act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 |
| H6174 | Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs shall include the name of the dispensing health care practice instead of the name of the dispenser. | Dead | 04/04/2025 |
| H6211 | Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the interlock systems. | Dead | 04/09/2025 |
| H6212 | Makes offenses against gift card holders subject to the penalties for larceny. | Dead | 04/09/2025 |
| H6229 | Establishes the Rhode Island state crime laboratory within the department of attorney general. | Dead | 04/11/2025 |
| H6242 | Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/22/2025 |
| H6245 | Creates a bail task force to study the need of monetary conditions of bail and to consider other methods for ensuring an accused’s appearance in court, enhance public safety and honor the presumption of innocence. | Dead | 04/23/2025 |
| H6286 | Provides that law enforcement officers who appears before the court for prosecution of a violation of a protective order shall self-certify that the officer has successfully completed a specialized domestic violence prosecution training course. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/30/2025 |
| H6318 | Requires every school bus, including buses used exclusively for to transport students receiving special education, to be equipped with a live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring system and retractable stop sign. | Dead | 05/09/2025 |
| H6346 | Amends the Identity Theft Protection Act by eliminating current definitions and establishing new definitions. This act also raises the penalty provisions for violations. | Dead | 05/16/2025 |
| H6369 | Allows the health care advocate to petition the superior court for the appointment of a receiver as deemed necessary or appropriate by the court. | Dead | 05/28/2025 |
| H6370 | Provide to provide greater clarity in insurance claim settlements, the appraisal process and procedural safeguards to enhance consumer protections against bad faith practices by insurers. | Dead | 05/28/2025 |
| H6378 | Provides for the sealing of eviction records under certain circumstances. | Dead | 05/30/2025 |
| H6385 | Makes technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the law revision office. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 06/04/2025 |
| H6406 | Extends the immunity from alcohol- or drug-related offenses in cases of emergency overdose care to violations of bail conditions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 06/11/2025 |
| H6407 | Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase penalties for malicious injury to or killing of animals. | Dead | 06/11/2025 |
| S0063 | Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| S0169 | Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of health care services, products, or devices. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/09/2025 |
| S0269 | Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this chapter. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/16/2025 |
| S0280 | Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/02/2025 |
| S0296 | Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/02/2025 |
| S0317 | Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/23/2025 |
| S0354 | Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/02/2025 |
| S0356 | Provides that a communication between an attorney and client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary, is privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client was acting in his, her, or its individual capacity. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/23/2025 |
| S0559 | Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 06/14/2025 |
| S0618 | Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/02/2025 |
| S0700 | Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care information. | Dead | 05/09/2025 |
| S0730 | Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/23/2025 |
| S0767 | Establishes the Genetic Information Privacy Act, which would require a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, as defined, to provide a consumer with certain information regarding the company’s policies and procedures regarding use of genetic data. | Dead | 05/09/2025 |
| S0926 | Extends the immunity from alcohol- or drug-related offenses in cases of emergency overdose care to violations of bail conditions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/23/2025 |
| S0952 | Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/23/2025 |
| S0957 | Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal § 8-4.1-6 regarding additional credit for a master's degree. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/07/2025 |