2025 Legislative Priorities
The legislation below was endorsed by the Central Providence Unidos Executive Committee and emerged from the Working Groups focused on advancing the goals & strategies of the North Stars outlined in the Central Providence Roadmap.
| Focus Area | Bill & Sponsor | Legislation Name | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overarching | H5849 (Tanzi) S0697 (Murray) | RI Equity Zone Act | Codifies the (Health) Equity Zone Network into law. |
| Overarching | H5473 (Alzate) S329 (Murray) | Top 1% Surtax | Requires that landlords establish one of several specific grounds in court before evicting a tenant. |
| Housing | H5264 (Potter) S0580 (Mack) | Rent Stabilization | Limits rent increases to no more than 4% annually. |
| Housing | H5503 (Cruz) S0212 (Mack) | Just Cause Evictions | Requires that landlords establish one of several specific grounds in court before evicting a tenant. |
| Health | H6066 (Giraldo) | Paid Family Leave | Increases paid time off for parental leave from 6 to 12 weeks, expands the definition of caregivers to include grandchildren and siblings caring for family members experiencing illness. |
| Education | H5744 (Morales) S0785 (Vargas) | Multilingual Teachers Act | Creates a scholarship fund for teachers seeking bilingual, dual language or world language certification. |
| Education | H5982 (Felix) S0457 (McKenney) | Access to Bilingual Education | Creates an incentive for schools to start, expand, and improve K-12 dual language programs. |
| Education | H5225 (Alzate) S0537 (Bissaillon) | Protected Spaces Act | Limits 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. |
| Quality Work | H5940 (Stewart) S0752 (Ciccone) | Employee Ownership Act | Helps stabilize the state’s tax base and small business landscape by incentivizing the creation of worker-owned Businesses. |
| Quality Work | S0342 H5405 H5304 H5470 H5467 H5468 S0092 | Save RIPTA | $32.6 million budget allocation to RIPTA, redirecting sales tax from rideshares to RIPTA, mandating bus pass benefits for large companies, proposing a $100 million bond for transit improvements, increasing RIPTA’s share of the gas tax to 30%, introducing a rideshare surcharge to support RIPTA and infrastructure. |
| Power | H5726 (Morales) S238 (McKenney) | Freedom to Read Act | Promotes free expression and access of information by prohibiting the censorship of library materials. |
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