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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE--BENEFITS"
+description: "Mandates paid leave by allowing qualified employees to take medical leave to undergo donation procedures, medical tests, and recovery related to being a living organ donor, or bone marrow transplant donor."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 6065"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 6065 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Cruz", "Furtado", "Giraldo", "Handy", "McGaw", "McNamara", "Potter", "Slater", "Speakman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-12"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40a19570-0940-4a53-a17f-918c5d8c0287"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "f64f50cf8081584ad7293502102ab66e7333b689e3599fd098d80fd20a727c8b"
+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 6065 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE--BENEFITS
+
+Mandates paid leave by allowing qualified employees to take medical leave to undergo donation procedures, medical tests, and recovery related to being a living organ donor, or bone marrow transplant donor.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **6065 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6065aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- AS AMENDED — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alzate — primary (person)
+- Cruz — primary (person)
+- Furtado — primary (person)
+- Giraldo — primary (person)
+- Handy — primary (person)
+- McGaw — primary (person)
+- McNamara — primary (person)
+- Potter — primary (person)
+- Slater — primary (person)
+- Speakman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-12** 03/12/2025 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2025)
+- **2025-03-19** 03/19/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/40a19570-0940-4a53-a17f-918c5d8c0287`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+