---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to consider incorporating substance abuse education and suicide prevention into the health education curriculum.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to consider incorporating substance abuse education and suicide prevention into the health education curriculum.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 306"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 306 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mental Health", "Education", "Drugs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gee", "Miller", "Nesselbush", "Satchell", "Sheehan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ae7144f-5a82-4f7f-82e8-9f6ced35169b"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "c22712ca8e315203e7b21b7a9e9cf96326f26096b28a17a48566676d5028807b"
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 306 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to consider incorporating substance abuse education and suicide prevention into the health education curriculum.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **306** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0306.pdf)

## Votes

- CURRICULUM — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gee — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Nesselbush — primary (person)
- Satchell — primary (person)
- Sheehan — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-16** 02/16/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Education `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-03-06** 03/06/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2017)
- **2017-03-08** 03/08/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2017)
- **2017-05-24** 05/24/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-25** 05/25/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2017)
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 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/8ae7144f-5a82-4f7f-82e8-9f6ced35169b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).