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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: "SB 361"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 361 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Felag", "Gallo", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Urso"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-21"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18cca703-a80c-4ad9-8916-8f10d6e5e939"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "aadc6a1bcd18c74dcab3c4b70d7b121af37a7f728949f3ef5b6e805fc223007f"
+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 361 (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. **361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0361.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Britto — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Urso — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/12/2025)
+- **2025-03-12** 03/12/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House 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/18cca703-a80c-4ad9-8916-8f10d6e5e939`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+