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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMMISSION ON THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING (Provides conditions to lawfully permit a state employee to be employed as an interpreter or a CART provider outside of the normal working hours.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMMISSION ON THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING (Provides conditions to lawfully permit a state employee to be employed as an interpreter or a CART provider outside of the normal working hours.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 305"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 305 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Handicapped", "Health & Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Metts", "Nesselbush", "Quezada", "Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-13"
+last_action: "2019-07-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd499760-e7fa-4ab1-8e9a-1f7de9fb2e91"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "a41e8d0c47e8153bb4ca71d8cadad8685bb63a2854acaef2223ba7f04b4eb123"
+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 SB 305 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMMISSION ON THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING (Provides conditions to lawfully permit a state employee to be employed as an interpreter or a CART provider outside of the normal working hours.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0305.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crowley — primary (person)
+- Metts — primary (person)
+- Nesselbush — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-13** 02/13/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-23** 05/23/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/30/2019)
+- **2019-05-30** 05/30/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2019)
+- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2019)
+- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/24/2019)
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 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/dd499760-e7fa-4ab1-8e9a-1f7de9fb2e91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+