Enacted: 2025
Rhode Island appropriated $250,000 to an electric leaf blower rebate program in 2025 — the most concrete Northeast neighboring-state incentive action per CT OLR Report 2025-R-0139. Administered by the Office of Energy Resources (OER). No statewide use or sales restriction. Providence enacted a phased municipal ordinance (passed October 2, 2025) with city departments off gas by 2028 and a year-round ban taking effect January 1, 2033 — one of the longest phase-in windows in the country.