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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION"
+description: "Considers election officials and poll workers \"public officials\" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 729"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 729 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Britto", "Burke", "DiMario", "Dimitri", "Felag", "Gallo", "LaMountain", "Thompson", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a08e544-1570-4369-9e69-24edc89fa292"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "81890b764c417e80316c070558aa3c10662b7d7ef5071565c72c140fa95db8d6"
+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 729 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION
+
+Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **729 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0729A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Britto — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Thompson — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `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 (06/02/2025)
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/6a08e544-1570-4369-9e69-24edc89fa292`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+