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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUDGET COMMISSION"
+description: "Creates the Warwick public schools budget commission consisting of 5 members to oversee the operations of Warwick public schools and to present a preliminary analysis of the school district's financial situation."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 242"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 242 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McKenney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-13"
+last_action: "2025-04-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cf4d72e-e60a-4f04-b0c3-c5d89f4011a3"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "dcd26358ec586817adcf73f074396fa93ee5a04eee86175d81bea150327f73ef"
+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 242 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUDGET COMMISSION
+
+Creates the Warwick public schools budget commission consisting of 5 members to oversee the operations of Warwick public schools and to present a preliminary analysis of the school district's financial situation.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0242.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **68–1** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-13** 02/13/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/04/2025)
+- **2025-03-04** 03/04/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-05** 03/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/13/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-13** 03/13/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Referred to House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for consideration (03/25/2025)
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Placed on House Calendar (03/27/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cf4d72e-e60a-4f04-b0c3-c5d89f4011a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+