---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS (School boards to establish threat assessment policies and teams. Oversight committee for the teams is established.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS (School boards to establish threat assessment policies and teams. Oversight committee for the teams is established.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 818"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 818 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conley", "Gallo", "Lombardo", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-30"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b93c5025-6286-4ab3-99dd-a556d8c75ff3"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "287f7305eab6f27c9b764cf4dde61e9ed8c108e0fd2a3b8703121ab50491d091"
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 818 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS (School boards to establish threat assessment policies and teams. Oversight committee for the teams is established.)

## Version chain

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

1. **818** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0818.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Conley — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-30** 04/30/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/29/2019)
- **2019-05-29** 05/29/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2019)
- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/24/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 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/b93c5025-6286-4ab3-99dd-a556d8c75ff3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).