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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL"
+description: "Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 474"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 474 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiMario", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Ujifusa", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e52394a2-87fc-41d0-bd5e-b57e2a721302"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "82e06d599e43ff1658d043d2191ae26e3cb985353ff7b8f45aec96b2ea6e46fb"
+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 474 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL
+
+Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **474 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0474aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **67–0** (pass) · upper
+- AS AMENDED — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Britto — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+- Valverde — 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`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/18/2025)
+- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/27/2025)
+- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/03/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 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/e52394a2-87fc-41d0-bd5e-b57e2a721302`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+