Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ri/2021/sb-1001.md

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY (Eliminates the words \"moral turpitude\" as a cause of refusal to issue a license to various professionals.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY (Eliminates the words \"moral turpitude\" as a cause of refusal to issue a license to various professionals.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1001"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 1001 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business & Professions", "Code of Ethics", "Licenses", "Miscellaneous"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 6
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-06-30"
+last_action: "2021-07-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3540250-788e-437d-b9c2-8deaaac7718d"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "dea846e5031b6ecdd855c7e93464b9af18c0b6a13be45edd8d9ff9978840507a"
+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 1001 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY (Eliminates the words "moral turpitude" as a cause of refusal to issue a license to various professionals.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **1001** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/SenateText21/S1001.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Miller — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (07/01/2021)
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (07/01/2021)
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2021-07-09** 07/09/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-07-13** 07/13/2021 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/c3540250-788e-437d-b9c2-8deaaac7718d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+