---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES (Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES (Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2341"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2341 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Handicapped", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "Quezada", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/988877ae-56b8-4b40-a547-4f1e9f98488d"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "db5e0470b10d6be782fd365f80df9b560fc111a2cbaa7e3b0629a8df6d5678c8"
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 2341 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES (Removes the requirement that a student with disabilities be a college student in order to be eligible to participate in the Mary Brennan fellowship fund program and also removes the requirement that the fellowship program take place in Providence.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2341** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2341.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gallo — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** 02/15/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-20** 04/20/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2018)
- **2018-04-25** 04/25/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-05-25** 05/25/2018 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2018)
- **2018-05-30** 05/30/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-31** 05/31/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2018)
- **2018-06-06** 06/06/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Committee transferred to House Finance
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/988877ae-56b8-4b40-a547-4f1e9f98488d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).