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.

S2494
Provides for "litigation financing" regulation by DBR.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Mar 3, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2560
Permits licensed providers to accompany emergency medical services and treat patients within the community for mental health disorders, including substance use disorders.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Mar 3, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2572
Permits physician assistants to practice without a physician's direct supervision and receives direct payments from Medicaid.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Mar 3, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2609
Deceptive trade practice to sell vehicle used in violent crime or exposed to biohazards without notice to purchaser.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Mar 3, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7322
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
Mar 2, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7426
Expands the scope of practice for nurse anesthetists with two years’ or more experience to remove the requirement of physician supervision.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
Mar 2, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7813
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.)
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Withdrawn at sponsor's request
Mar 2, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H4942
Requires insurance companies to prove that a healthcare service or procedure is not medically necessary.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H7925
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8122
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.)
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Rules Committee
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8158
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.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Finance
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8162
Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the RI promise scholarship program or the RI hope scholarship program, after Rhode Island college has satisfied all eligible scholarships to be reimbursed to onward we learn.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Finance
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8166
Establishes a statewide “Healthy School Meals for all” universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Finance
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
H8200
Imposes a tax equal to four percent (4%) on net investment income, such as interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, capital gains and rental income, of high-income households, estates and trusts, based upon federal guidelines.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to House Finance
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2587
Permits Tiverton to require two parking space for each studio, one-bedroom, or two-bedroom low- or moderate-income housing units upon the determination that limited or no local public transportation or off-street parking availability near these units.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Committee transferred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2653
Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2654
Establishes the Rhode Island clean heat standards program to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2656
Creates the extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper program for the recycling of packaging and paper products.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2659
Requires the governor, when presenting his proposed budget articles for each fiscal year to set forth the climate considerations that were undertaken to move the state towards the mandated goals set forth in the 2021 Act on Climate.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source
S2661
Creates the Affordable Clean Energy Security Act which establishes a study of offshore wind in Rhode Island.
- StageIntroduced
- StatusActive
- Session2026 Regular Session
Latest reported action
Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture
Feb 27, 2026
Details updating — summary is available while full bill details sync.
Official source

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Rhode Island bills.

Current legislation.

Active bill stages

Provides for "litigation financing" regulation by DBR.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.)

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.

Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the RI promise scholarship program or the RI hope scholarship program, after Rhode Island college has satisfied all eligible scholarships to be reimbursed to onward we learn.

Establishes a statewide “Healthy School Meals for all” universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.

Imposes a tax equal to four percent (4%) on net investment income, such as interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, capital gains and rental income, of high-income households, estates and trusts, based upon federal guidelines.

Permits Tiverton to require two parking space for each studio, one-bedroom, or two-bedroom low- or moderate-income housing units upon the determination that limited or no local public transportation or off-street parking availability near these units.

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

Establishes the Rhode Island clean heat standards program to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits.

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

Requires the governor, when presenting his proposed budget articles for each fiscal year to set forth the climate considerations that were undertaken to move the state towards the mandated goals set forth in the 2021 Act on Climate.

Creates the Affordable Clean Energy Security Act which establishes a study of offshore wind in Rhode Island.