STATE LEGISLATION

Rhode Island bills.

Active bills in Rhode Island's current legislative session, mirrored from public legislative records.

ACTIVE BILLS

Current legislation.

Lists include only active bills from the current session. Latest reported stage, body, and action come from mirrored public records and may not reflect real-time changes.

Active bill stages

2,097 active bills in the current session, grouped by latest reported stage.

1,830Introduced: Filed and awaiting committee or floor action.
47In committee: Assigned to a committee for review.
219Floor or other chamber: On a chamber floor or moving between chambers.
1Enrolled or executive: Enrolled for signature or awaiting executive action.
0Terminal outcomes: Became law, vetoed, or failed. Active directories list only open bills.
0Unspecified stage: Latest action could not be mapped to a precise stage. These bills are still active, not closed.

S2631
Requires the PUC to produce report on comprehensive study by April 30, 2027.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2713
Establishes the Property Equity Protection Act to protect property owners from losing their equity when their property is seized to pay a debt to the government by allowing ample time to pay off the debt and adequate notice of due process.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2805
Excludes nuclear power from the office of energy resources and division of public utilities from participation, procuring and entering into long-term contracts.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2820
Establishes an agricultural restricted receipt account within the department of environmental management. An advisory committee to be established to determine suggested uses of the funds in said account.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2875
Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2910
Requires condominium associations to conduct structural surveys and reserve studies, fund reserves at 15%, and plan for repairs.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2956
Provides measures to prevent title fraud by authorizing the recorder of deeds to require the production of a government-issued photographic identification card before recording a deed or certain other instruments.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2972
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2973
Provides that landlords would pay interest on security deposits in residential landlord-tenant matters.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S3039
Authorizes a property owner to pursue reasonable actions to protect their property from coastal hazards that affect life, infrastructure, or essential land uses without prior approval.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S3074
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).
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S3181
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee heard
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S3231
Submits the state's 2026 capital development program relating to green bonds requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling $60,000,000 for approval of the electorate at the general election to be held in November, 2026.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 28, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2781
Prohibits unauthorized placement of merchants on advertising platform order interfaces, and would prohibit third-party restaurant reservation services.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Meeting postponed (04/28/2026)
Apr 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7971
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/30/2026)
Apr 25, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8154
Creates a new chapter to provide for non-charitable bingo by the state lottery division.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/29/2026)
Apr 25, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7704
SUBMITTING TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION TO ISSUE BONDS FOR A MEDICAL SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
Apr 24, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8138
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/30/2026)
Apr 24, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2409
Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize binding arbitration and establishes new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparisons of wages/hourly conditions of employment in similarly skilled jobs.
- StageOther chamber
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Referred to House Labor
Apr 17, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7009
JOINT RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING A CONVENTION OF THE STATES UNDER ARTICLE V OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (Petitions congress to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution to impose restraints on the federal government.)
- StageIn committee
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
House · Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Apr 16, 2026
Official source

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Rhode Island bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

Requires the PUC to produce report on comprehensive study by April 30, 2027.

Establishes the Property Equity Protection Act to protect property owners from losing their equity when their property is seized to pay a debt to the government by allowing ample time to pay off the debt and adequate notice of due process.

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

Establishes an agricultural restricted receipt account within the department of environmental management. An advisory committee to be established to determine suggested uses of the funds in said account.

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

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

Provides measures to prevent title fraud by authorizing the recorder of deeds to require the production of a government-issued photographic identification card before recording a deed or certain other instruments.

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.

Provides that landlords would pay interest on security deposits in residential landlord-tenant matters.

Authorizes a property owner to pursue reasonable actions to protect their property from coastal hazards that affect life, infrastructure, or essential land uses without prior approval.

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).

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.

Submits the state's 2026 capital development program relating to green bonds requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling $60,000,000 for approval of the electorate at the general election to be held in November, 2026.

Prohibits unauthorized placement of merchants on advertising platform order interfaces, and would prohibit third-party restaurant reservation services.

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.

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

SUBMITTING TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION TO ISSUE BONDS FOR A MEDICAL SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

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.

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

JOINT RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING A CONVENTION OF THE STATES UNDER ARTICLE V OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (Petitions congress to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution to impose restraints on the federal government.)