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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS"
+description: "Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 618"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 618 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bissaillon", "Dimitri", "Euer", "LaMountain", "Mack", "McKenney", "Ujifusa", "Zurier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-06"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0265e9d8-ef14-446f-9566-a69c2f40f7bb"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "ac8d5b81b870feb7d38190c911493eb4bb940ef56922588b2c6d6144b3c167c9"
+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 618 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS
+
+Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **618** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0618.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+- Zurier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-06** 03/06/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/03/2025)
+- **2025-04-03** 04/03/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/01/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2025)
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 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/0265e9d8-ef14-446f-9566-a69c2f40f7bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+