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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES"
+description: "Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 796"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 796 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gu", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Urso", "Valverde", "Vargas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-14"
+last_action: "2025-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca40373f-0658-49b6-8781-fb5aacbab45e"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "38d3152734eb6b7204fb3db02bfc30a035b9a24c4759b770aa06174d484fed90"
+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 796 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
+
+Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **796 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0796A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gu — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Urso — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+- Vargas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/18/2025)
+- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/03/2025)
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/05/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 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/ca40373f-0658-49b6-8781-fb5aacbab45e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+