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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS"
+description: "Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would also remove the standard of \"good moral character.\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2624"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2624 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "Lombardi", "Quezada", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "3acb7e6af26c4878dc5188022334cb55b5dc9f166f764bb78072e92a0aa204ce"
+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 2624 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS
+
+Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would also remove the standard of "good moral character."
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2624** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2624.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2024)
+- **2024-03-21** 03/21/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 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/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+