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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES"
+description: "Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 6161"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 6161 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Boylan", "Carson", "Cruz", "Donovan", "Kazarian", "Speakman", "Spears", "Stewart"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-04-02"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/635833a2-eefd-4341-96a4-762c8375237a"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "483e4be33aa735c1b33222bcd00964f1ab731a29a02261cc208a577889669127"
+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 6161 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
+
+Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **6161** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6161.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alzate — primary (person)
+- Boylan — primary (person)
+- Carson — primary (person)
+- Cruz — primary (person)
+- Donovan — primary (person)
+- Kazarian — primary (person)
+- Speakman — primary (person)
+- Spears — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/09/2025)
+- **2025-04-09** 04/09/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent 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/635833a2-eefd-4341-96a4-762c8375237a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+