---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Establishes the Rhode Island chapter of the children’s advocacy center, a community based organization that would provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location from which a multidisciplinary team would act in response to child abuse allegations.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Establishes the Rhode Island chapter of the children’s advocacy center, a community based organization that would provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location from which a multidisciplinary team would act in response to child abuse allegations.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2683"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2683 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Families", "Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin", "Lombardi", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-20"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edd5640d-6aa2-40a2-af6d-d473d549fbfa"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "0db5fe231401c5a093d1c7a67e4ec3033c2a5ed6d4f31fa9413692d215a99da3"
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 2683 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Establishes the Rhode Island chapter of the children’s advocacy center, a community based organization that would provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location from which a multidisciplinary team would act in response to child abuse allegations.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2683 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2683aa.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Approval of Amendment — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-20** 03/20/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** 03/23/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/27/2018)
- **2018-03-27** 03/27/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-08** 06/08/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2018)
- **2018-06-12** 06/12/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-13** 06/13/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Committee recommends passage as amended in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 House passed as amended 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/edd5640d-6aa2-40a2-af6d-d473d549fbfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).