Rhode Island

STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT - Provides that testimony submitted on behalf of state departments, agencies, boards or commissions would not be considered official unless authorized by the governor.

STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND COMMERCE CORPORATION - Removes nuclear plant projects from seeking the approval from the general assembly for the construction of said nuclear plant.

BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Modifies the real estate sales disclosure form to include the disclosure of “blower door diagnostic air leakage testing” and advises that air leakage testing is recommended prior to purchasing a residential unit.

SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES - Allows the Honorable Mayor Frank Picozzi to join Madeline Marie Hopkins and Cameron David Charron in Marriage on or about February 10, 2026, within the City of Warwick, Rhode Island.

EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM - Requires the department of education to develop and make available for use in all schools a mental health curriculum. School districts would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade students.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES - Provides that exemptions to the prohibition of liquor licenses within two hundred feet (200') of schools or places of worship do not eliminate neighboring property owners’ remonstrance rights to object to the license.

COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- UNFAIR SALES PRACTICES - Provides that health clubs must discontinue automatic deductions from the consumer's account or credit card within 30 calendar days of receiving a notice to stop from the consumer.

HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACT OF 2026 - Establishes a fee on companies that sell fossil fuels in Rhode Island and establishes a fund to disburse the collected funds.

EDUCATION -- SCHOOL FUNDS AND PROPERTY - Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.

EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT - Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education.

STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Incorporates ethical energy standards to the 2021 Act on Climate.

STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1990 - Defines “anti-Semitism” for the state human affairs commission to use while investigating and working to resolve complaints of discrimination and for the commission against prejudice and bias to use in defining hate crimes.

COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- TRADE IN FARMED ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS - 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.

TAXATION -- PERSONAL INCOME TAX - Provides modifications for payments of interest on student loans shall be subtracted from federal adjusted gross income to an amount equal to the payments of interest for the satisfaction of outstanding student loans.

PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES -- REVIEW OF CONTRACTED SERVICES - Require the director of any state agency with more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) in contracted services to conduct a review of said services and to provide a two percent (2%) reduction in said expenditures over five years.

TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION - Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks weighing fourteen thousand pounds (14,000 lbs.) or less from sales and use tax.

HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires healthcare facilities that perform abortions meet the license requirements of similar healthcare facilities and allows the department of health to conduct unannounced inspections.

WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- RHODE ISLAND INFRASTRUCTURE BANK - Establishes the rural housing development revolving fund for the purpose of providing loans to support low- and moderate-income housing development projects in rural areas.

STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- 2021 ACT ON CLIMATE - Requires the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative to reducing carbon emissions and meeting climate goals.