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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES"
+description: "Protects against discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs and activities, even if there is a change in the federal law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 887"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 887 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "DiMario", "DiPalma", "Gallo", "Lawson", "Mack", "McKenney", "Murray", "Valverde", "Zurier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-27"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cd09282-19eb-452a-a07d-cc66a44ed6b1"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "261074ad75ab6be1405b0dbe9b88dc0d5a036199198865832a916a5996264a67"
+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 887 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
+
+Protects against discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs and activities, even if there is a change in the federal law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **887** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0887.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–1** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+- Zurier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Education `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/23/2025)
+- **2025-04-25** 04/25/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/30/2025)
+- **2025-04-30** 04/30/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `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 read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/5cd09282-19eb-452a-a07d-cc66a44ed6b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+