---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT (Establishes a lead water supply replacement program for public and private service lines and requires disclosure to tenants and buyers of real property of the presence of lead service lines.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT (Establishes a lead water supply replacement program for public and private service lines and requires disclosure to tenants and buyers of real property of the presence of lead service lines.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health & Safety", "Landlord & Tenant", "Property", "Waste (Hazardous/Solid/Toxic)", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "DiMario", "Euer", "Gallo", "Goodwin", "Gu", "Miller", "Pearson", "Ruggerio", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b4d8c62-5b31-4f1b-9930-70ed6c859a92"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "6d269eaaefe3c1fd64c2297c7411e6042c096f866d2344b4e5439aa52b09a225"
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 2 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT (Establishes a lead water supply replacement program for public and private service lines and requires disclosure to tenants and buyers of real property of the presence of lead service lines.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2 SUB B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0002B.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** 01/10/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2023)
- **2023-05-09** 05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-05-19** 05/19/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2023)
- **2023-05-22** 05/22/2023 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2023-05-23** 05/23/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** 05/24/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/30/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** 05/30/2023 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2023-05-31** 05/31/2023 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2023)
- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub B `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/15/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 House passed Sub B `passage`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/15/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-16** 06/16/2023 Senate passed Sub B in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-24** 06/24/2023 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/2b4d8c62-5b31-4f1b-9930-70ed6c859a92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).