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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RECORDATION OF HONORABLE DISCHARGES (Provides a petition process to have a discharge from service recorded as honorable for members of the armed services separated from service with a general or other than honorable discharge due solely to their sexual orientation/gender identity/expression.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RECORDATION OF HONORABLE DISCHARGES (Provides a petition process to have a discharge from service recorded as honorable for members of the armed services separated from service with a general or other than honorable discharge due solely to their sexual orientation/gender identity/expression.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 837"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 837 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Employment Security", "Equal Rights/Discrimination"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Euer", "Goldin", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "Murray"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-04-30"
+last_action: "2019-06-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27f01a92-12c6-4c5f-91c1-287eed148cec"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "ad5ec33d9b98a78b3c28a15d0db4c3c631331f87d2e303e1080d592eebdfe825"
+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 837 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RECORDATION OF HONORABLE DISCHARGES (Provides a petition process to have a discharge from service recorded as honorable for members of the armed services separated from service with a general or other than honorable discharge due solely to their sexual orientation/gender identity/expression.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **837** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0837.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **75–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Goldin — primary (person)
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-04-30** 04/30/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-10** 05/10/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/15/2019)
+- **2019-05-15** 05/15/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2019)
+- **2019-05-29** 05/29/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2019)
+- **2019-06-06** 06/06/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Referred to House Veterans Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2019)
+- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2019)
+- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 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/27f01a92-12c6-4c5f-91c1-287eed148cec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+