Criminal Offenses

State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Provides specific language for signs to be posted at certain establishments notifying people of contact information to the national human trafficking resource center. [HB-5881]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- UNIFORM ACT ON PREVENTION OF AND REMEDIES FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING -- TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS AND INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE - Provides specific language for signs to be posted at certain establishments notifying people of contact information to the national human trafficking resource center.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sherry Roberts Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/13/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm. [HB-5890]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Specifies that it is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) to possess a firearm.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raymond Hull Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. [HB-5923]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sherry Roberts Introduced, Referred To House Judiciary on 02/28/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun. [HB-5933]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Arthur Corvese Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. [SB-563]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN - Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Elaine Morgan Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary on 02/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms. [SB-526]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ana Quezada Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/18/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting. [SB-569]
ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES - Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Samuel Zurier Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/20/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm [SB-530]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Virginia Sosnowski Introduced, Referred To Senate Judiciary on 02/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence. [SB-562]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL ASSAULT - Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Elaine Morgan Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person. [SB-561]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ciccone Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Provides for tiered and reduced penalties for offenses of larceny, and shoplifting. Further provides that offenses of shoplifting or larceny would not be misdemeanors, repeals habitual offender provisions and other fraudulent offenses. [SB-545]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, FALSE PRETENSES, AND MISAPPROPRIATION - Provides for tiered and reduced penalties for offenses of larceny, and shoplifting. Further provides that offenses of shoplifting or larceny would not be misdemeanors, repeals habitual offender provisions and other fraudulent offenses.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ana Quezada Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2. [SB-515]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION - Makes it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ciccone Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/18/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense. [SB-558]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- BURGLARY AND BREAKING AND ENTERING - Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ciccone Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than the participants receive anything of value. [HB-5656]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES - Allows social gaming in private residences and in public taverns or private clubs as long as the gambling is incidental to a bona fide social relationship between the participants and no person other than the participants receive anything of value.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. William O'Brien Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharrassment. [HB-5671]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMPUTER CRIME - Makes it unnecessary to prove that a person’s transmission of electronic communications be for the sole purpose of harassment before being found guilty of cyberstalking or cyberharrassment.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lauren Carson Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place. [HB-5655]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- STALKING - Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Katherine Kazarian Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards. [HB-5637]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CREDIT CARD CRIME ACT - Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Arthur Corvese Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Established crime of real estate title fraud and creates private cause of action. [HB-5662]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- FRAUD AND FALSE DEALING - Established crime of real estate title fraud and creates private cause of action.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. John Edwards Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits local licensing authorities from issuing a concealed carry permit to out of state residents based on permits issued by authorities from other states or subdivisions. [HB-5654]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits local licensing authorities from issuing a concealed carry permit to out of state residents based on permits issued by authorities from other states or subdivisions.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lauren Carson Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm [HB-5652]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Carol McEntee Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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