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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN"
+description: "Adds staff of day camps and residential camps for youth to the definition of \"person responsible for a child's welfare\" within the chapter on abused and neglected children."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2945"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2945 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "LaMountain", "McKenney", "Patalano", "Raptakis", "Tikoian", "Vargas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-03-04"
+last_action: "2026-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1009067-1338-490b-94a5-2d8b57fd5e8c"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "a031b214a8d7a0084268f24e15983d8395cbcf8f7b64c6a8c51cd7f9d0eaa787"
+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 2945 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN
+
+Adds staff of day camps and residential camps for youth to the definition of "person responsible for a child's welfare" within the chapter on abused and neglected children.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2945** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2945.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Patalano — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Vargas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-03-04** 03/04/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-24** 04/24/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/30/2026)
+- **2026-04-30** 04/30/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-05-19** 05/19/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/21/2026)
+- **2026-05-21** 05/21/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/28/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-05-28** 05/28/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/08/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-08** 06/08/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-16** 06/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-19** 06/19/2026 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/b1009067-1338-490b-94a5-2d8b57fd5e8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+