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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT"
+description: "Requires that any state agency, state institution of higher education, and quasi-public agency that engages in printing more than 50 copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use a state-owned or operated print shop."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 668"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 668 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "DiPalma", "Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c602101-7190-48b4-966f-f1eb75c34b35"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "b625c3e7cc05f42dba73e41136515e1507a28461cd44c6645bc976cc1d45e9ac"
+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 668 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT
+
+Requires that any state agency, state institution of higher education, and quasi-public agency that engages in printing more than 50 copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use a state-owned or operated print shop.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **668 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0668A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–8** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **33–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/29/2025)
+- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
+- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A 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/9c602101-7190-48b4-966f-f1eb75c34b35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+