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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS"
+description: "Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests for conditions for which there is a medical benefit to the early detection and treatment of the disorder."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 686"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 686 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Gallo", "Lauria", "Mack"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99a88072-5275-4624-97ff-64c70f9e6916"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "dcc73073e9ee3a884da431fd44a8a8756a92d6471c69cae042857ea6b249da74"
+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 686 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS
+
+Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests for conditions for which there is a medical benefit to the early detection and treatment of the disorder.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **686** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0686.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/10/2025)
+- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 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`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 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/99a88072-5275-4624-97ff-64c70f9e6916`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+