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legislation/us/states/ri/2018/hb-7402.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES (Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES (Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 7402"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7402 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Handicapped", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Azzinaro", "Canario", "Casimiro", "Diaz", "McNamara"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-07-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc135788-3951-4a31-91ad-1f1b009bbbf8"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "acdf36f4ac940dd473651f8456e42a140938530f93b0eef4d1308bbb2280b3c9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
+---
+
+# Rhode Island HB 7402 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES (Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7402** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H7402.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Azzinaro — primary (person)
+- Canario — primary (person)
+- Casimiro — primary (person)
+- Diaz — primary (person)
+- McNamara — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-01** 02/01/2018 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-04** 05/04/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2018)
+- **2018-05-09** 05/09/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2018)
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc135788-3951-4a31-91ad-1f1b009bbbf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+