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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS"
+description: "Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 608"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 608 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Felag", "LaMountain", "Lawson", "Murray", "Rogers", "Thompson", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-06"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b42a2de3-cd3e-4bc1-8b58-c1c9db664657"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "68989fd2a8efd8d15be3ee9e005dd2c37100d8fe34180070e8dd8bf7611de121"
+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 608 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS
+
+Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **608** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0608.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- Thompson — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-06** 03/06/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/27/2025)
+- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/03/2025)
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House 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/b42a2de3-cd3e-4bc1-8b58-c1c9db664657`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+