Criminal Offenses

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] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
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 J. Morgan Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/25/2025

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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] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
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 A. 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] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
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 B. 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] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Children and Youth ]
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 A. Ciccone Senate Passed Sub A on 06/12/2025

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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] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
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 A. 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] [Gaming ] [Alcoholic Beverages ] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ]
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 W. 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] [Cybersecurity ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Data Privacy ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Public Safety ]
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 H. 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] [Crime ] [Data Privacy ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
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 S. Kazarian Committee Recommends Passage on 04/22/2025

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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] [Consumer Protection ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ]
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 J. Corvese Signed By Governor on 06/10/2025

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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] [Real Estate ] [Crime ] [Consumer Protection ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- FRAUD AND FALSE DEALING - Established crime of real estate title fraud and creates private cause of action.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. John G. 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] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ]
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 H. Carson Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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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 [HB-5652] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
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 Hagan McEntee Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 03/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor. [HB-5639] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Children and Youth ] [Law Enforcement ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- KIDNAPPING - Establishes the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Justine A. Caldwell Signed By Governor on 06/24/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits the licensing authority from imposing additional or stricter requirements than the department of attorney general as well as prohibiting said licensing authorities from imposing any fees, other than the fee required in § 11-47-12. [HB-5653] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits the licensing authority from imposing additional or stricter requirements than the department of attorney general as well as prohibiting said licensing authorities from imposing any fees, other than the fee required in § 11-47-12.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Arthur J. 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

Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00. [SB-317] [Law Enforcement ] [Finance ] [Budget and Spending ] [Public Safety ] [Crime ]
COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES - Increases the maximum fees payable to sheriffs, sergeants, and constables for the service of writs, citations, or subpoenas, from $45.00 to $70.00.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Frank A. Ciccone Effective Without Governor's Signature on 06/18/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025. [SB-359] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- UNLAWFUL SALE OF PROHIBITED FIREARMS - Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Walter S. Felag Signed By Governor on 06/26/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted. [SB-355] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Data Privacy ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Cybersecurity ] [Law Enforcement ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES - Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David P. Tikoian Withdrawn At Sponsor's Request on 03/07/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period. [SB-286] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS - Prohibits purchases of more than one firearm in any thirty (30) day period.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Virginia Susan Sosnowski Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 05/14/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes. [SB-278] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan William Pearson Signed By Governor on 07/02/2025

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State (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor. [HB-5502] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Furthers delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee Committee Recommended Measure Be Held For Further Study on 04/01/2025

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