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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES"
+description: "Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 7969"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7969 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Batista", "Cotter", "Craven", "Dawson", "Finkelman", "Fogarty", "Knight", "McEntee", "Shanley", "Vella-Wilkinson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-03-05"
+last_action: "2024-06-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d424358-6ece-4bc4-a823-ab55a21107ac"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "f0ed7b48a5b7c79148444ef24e997d5f5619de4ff5e73d672b03f4897c4f0fd9"
+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 7969 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
+
+Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7969 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7969A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Batista — primary (person)
+- Cotter — primary (person)
+- Craven — primary (person)
+- Dawson — primary (person)
+- Finkelman — primary (person)
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- Knight — primary (person)
+- McEntee — primary (person)
+- Shanley — primary (person)
+- Vella-Wilkinson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-05** 03/05/2024 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-24** 03/24/2024 Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services
+- **2024-03-24** 03/24/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/26/2024)
+- **2024-03-26** 03/26/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2024)
+- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-17** 06/17/2024 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/7d424358-6ece-4bc4-a823-ab55a21107ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+