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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LACTATION COUNSELORS PRACTICE ACT OF 2024"
+description: "Specifies the requirements and procedures for licensing lactation counselors as well as the renewal, expiration, termination, refusal, revocation and suspension of licenses."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2379"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2379 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lauria", "Mack", "Murray", "Quezada", "Sosnowski", "Ujifusa", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-12"
+last_action: "2024-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f012122-15c6-45de-82fa-8d3347057dcd"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "05d599ef1680dac8e0862a3469779b84032274f9c266826288fc5f184846e38d"
+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 2379 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LACTATION COUNSELORS PRACTICE ACT OF 2024
+
+Specifies the requirements and procedures for licensing lactation counselors as well as the renewal, expiration, termination, refusal, revocation and suspension of licenses.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2379 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2379A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–5** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-12** 02/12/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-22** 03/22/2024 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`
+- **2024-05-28** 05/28/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2024)
+- **2024-05-29** 05/29/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/3f012122-15c6-45de-82fa-8d3347057dcd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+