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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS"
+description: "Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5349"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5349 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Batista", "Craven", "Cruz", "Dawson", "Felix", "Knight", "McEntee", "Place", "Potter"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47e3974b-c46a-4a1f-8706-61c4e146edbb"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "6dc8520bb742f05f3833c53950fb4d0e21fe2c55cad30f1ac1552818fe883a5e"
+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 5349 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS
+
+Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5349** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5349.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **67–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ajello — primary (person)
+- Batista — primary (person)
+- Craven — primary (person)
+- Cruz — primary (person)
+- Dawson — primary (person)
+- Felix — primary (person)
+- Knight — primary (person)
+- McEntee — primary (person)
+- Place — primary (person)
+- Potter — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-07** 02/07/2025 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/03/2025)
+- **2025-04-03** 04/03/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/22/2025)
+- **2025-04-22** 04/22/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/47e3974b-c46a-4a1f-8706-61c4e146edbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+