---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT"
description: "Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5563"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5563 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boylan", "Dawson", "Furtado", "Kazarian", "McEntee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e493600-ff60-4bd9-bbfe-fb7cdb7377bb"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "d2718ac794bb3741717746c77e38094895ebb73571c103d3a9d903536a45502c"
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 HB 5563 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT

Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training.

## Version chain

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

1. **5563** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5563.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **56–9** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boylan — primary (person)
- Dawson — primary (person)
- Furtado — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/25/2025)
- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/08/2025)
- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-16** 05/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (05/22/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** 05/22/2025 House read and passed `passage`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Referred to Senate Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/9e493600-ff60-4bd9-bbfe-fb7cdb7377bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).