Rhode Island Senate
Pam Lauria
Democratic. Senate, district 32.
Emailsen-lauria@rilegislature.gov
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officialBills they sponsored
63 bills sponsored this session
SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO MAKE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF RHODE ISLAND S HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE RELATED TO EDUCATING AND RETAINING PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERSS 3346 · this session · introduced Jun 4, 2026
Senate read and passedSENATE RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE WEEK OF MAY 6TH THROUGH MAY 12TH OF 2026, AS NATIONAL NURSES WEEK IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLANDS 3274 · this session · introduced May 8, 2026
Senate read and passedSENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO MAKE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF RHODE ISLAND S HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE RELATED TO EDUCATING AND RETAINING PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERSS 3057 · this session · introduced Mar 12, 2026
Senate read and passedALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSESS 3000 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Chapter 138, Jun 18, 2026BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- MENTAL HEALTH LAWS 2978 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Chapter 229, Jun 19, 2026STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- UNIFORM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACTS 2965 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyFOOD AND DRUGS -- COMPASSIONATE ACCESS TO MEDICAL CANNABIS ACTS 2872 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIESS 2856 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyEDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILSS 2855 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACISTS TEST-AND-TREAT AUTHORITY ACTS 2851 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIESS 2841 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Senate read and passedHEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAMS 2831 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyINSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- EQUAL PAY FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERSS 2806 · this session · introduced Mar 4, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyHEALTH AND SAFETY --THE RHODE ISLAND FIREARM INDUSTRY ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2026S 2611 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyCOMMERCIAL LAW--GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICESS 2609 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2026
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACTS 2571 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2026
Referred to House Health & Human ServicesHEALTH AND SAFETY -- USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BY HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS NOTIFICATION ACTS 2570 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2026
Chapter 372, Jun 22, 2026HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHS 2568 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMENS 2542 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGSS 2472 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2026
Chapter 016, Apr 22, 2026ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGSS 2470 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2026
Chapter 018, Apr 22, 2026FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE RHODE ISLAND KRATOM ACTS 2457 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2026
Referred to House CorporationsPUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONS 2427 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyMOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLESS 2413 · this session · introduced Jan 30, 2026
Chapter 253, Jun 19, 2026GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONSS 2328 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2026
Chapter 006, Mar 31, 2026MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SPECIAL LICENSES FOR MOTORCYCLES, MOTOR SCOOTERS, LOW-SPEED VEHICLES AND OTHER MOTOR DRIVEN CYCLESS 2286 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2026S 2255 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESS 2119 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyHEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAMS 2118 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Referred to House Health & Human ServicesFOOD AND DRUGS -- HEALTHY KIDS ACTS 2113 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyINSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIESS 2112 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSESS 2111 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyHEALTH AND SAFETY -- CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN CHILDREN RELIEF FUNDS 2110 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Referred to House LaborHEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 2101 · this session · introduced Jan 16, 2026
Referred to House FinanceCOURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCES 2054 · this session · introduced Jan 9, 2026
Referred to House JudiciaryCOURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTSS 2052 · this session · introduced Jan 9, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyTAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATIONS 2037 · this session · introduced Jan 9, 2026
Chapter 008, Apr 10, 2026BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROTECTIONS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ACTS 2033 · this session · introduced Jan 9, 2026
Referred to House JudiciarySENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE REPORTING AND EXPIRATION DATES OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION TO MAKE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF RHODE ISLAND S HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE RELATED TO EDUCATING AND RETAINING PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS ANDS 2002 · this session · introduced Jan 7, 2026
Senate read and passedMOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plaS 1061 · this session · introduced May 9, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND INDIVIDUAL MARKET AFFORDABILITY ACT OF 2025 (Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-incoS 0707 · this session · introduced Mar 7, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES (Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in S 0701 · this session · introduced Mar 7, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyHEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM (Allows the office of health insurance commissioner (OHIC) as the state agency that has the authority to designate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) care to obtS 0698 · this session · introduced Mar 7, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyHEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.)S 0670 · this session · introduced Mar 7, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROTECTIONS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ACT (Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs shall include the name of the dispensing health care practice insteadS 0578 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyCOURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- JURY LISTS (Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.)S 0575 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES (Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certS 0541 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Chapter 234, Jun 24, 2025HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES (Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.)S 0487 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Chapter 362, Jul 1, 2025STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT (Establishes a process whereby large drug manufacturers, may be penalized for prescription drug price increaseS 0486 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyBUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES (Authorizes pharmacists to dispense a one-time refill, for up to one hundred days under certain specified conditions.)S 0483 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Chapter 268, Jun 27, 2025FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT (Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalenS 0482 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Chapter 131, Jun 24, 2025HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare providS 0481 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Chapter 378, Jul 1, 2025INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Mandates health insurance coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drug, device or therapeutic equivalent.)S 0480 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyINSURANCE -- HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT (Requires each healthcare entity/network plan to compile/report to health insurance commissioner a summary of how the healthcare entity/network plan requirS 0463 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN (Requires the EOHHS to amend the state Medicaid plan and secure sufficient state general revenue to increase Medicaid payment rates to an amountS 0427 · this session · introduced Feb 26, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyHUMAN SERVICES -- THUNDERMIST FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM (Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and everS 0339 · this session · introduced Feb 21, 2025
Senate read and passedFOOD AND DRUGS -- HEALTHY KIDS ACT (Mandates that all restaurants offering children's meals offer at least two (2) children's meals that complies with certain detailed nutritional standards set forth in the act.)S 0272 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studySTATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN (Would provide children up to age three (3) with continuous coverage eligibility for RIte Track/RIte Care so that they are not at risk of losingS 0254 · this session · introduced Feb 13, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyVALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BARRINGTON (Validates and ratifies the amendments to the Barrington Home Rule Charter which were approved by the electors of the town of BarringS 0199 · this session · introduced Feb 7, 2025
Effective without Governor's signatureSENATE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ANTHONY V. ARICOS 0163 · this session · introduced Feb 4, 2025
Senate read and passedINSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES (Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require recoS 0115 · this session · introduced Jan 31, 2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further studyCOURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- EVIDENCE (Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as eviS 0066 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2025
Senate read and passedHEALTH AND SAFETY - CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN CHILDREN RELIEF FUND (Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state orS 0050 · this session · introduced Jan 23, 2025
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