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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AND REGULATION OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS"
+description: "Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 471"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 471 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "DiPalma", "Gallo", "Gu", "LaMountain", "Lawson", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b2fee5c-c3b6-4493-b007-8107f11f6a52"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "bc1da44f638fc8e809f64428b9b25f7414fcf16b37abda85feb2383dba33f71f"
+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 471 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROFESSIONAL LICENSING AND REGULATION OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS
+
+Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **471 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0471A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- Gu — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
+- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/06/2025)
+- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-30** 06/30/2025 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/7b2fee5c-c3b6-4493-b007-8107f11f6a52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+