---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT] (Requires that instruction in health and physical education include information provided to students that mixing opioids and alcohol can cause accidental death.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT] (Requires that instruction in health and physical education include information provided to students that mixing opioids and alcohol can cause accidental death.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1032"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1032 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Death", "Drugs", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "Miller", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-27"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28bc5272-5654-47d8-acb3-5537e84fffd5"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "29088a688811bcee8ecc8e7507acdd54863395d8c865013cf3c8eb823cee36fa"
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 1032 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT] (Requires that instruction in health and physical education include information provided to students that mixing opioids and alcohol can cause accidental death.)

## Version chain

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

1. **1032** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S1032.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gallo — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 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/28bc5272-5654-47d8-acb3-5537e84fffd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).