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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY"
+description: "Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 278"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 278 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bissaillon", "McKenney", "Murray", "Pearson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-13"
+last_action: "2025-07-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb87f252-ec78-44d8-bf9e-25d2364472f2"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "38b215bb958c2181fb9747b05e4503a834b04b8f4977be02bfebab75c47b0c49"
+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 278 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY
+
+Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **278 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0278A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–5** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-13** 02/13/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2025-03-17** 03/17/2025 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/18/2025)
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/25/2025)
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
+- **2025-06-09** 06/09/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-02** 07/02/2025 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/cb87f252-ec78-44d8-bf9e-25d2364472f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+