---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- DOMESTIC ASSAULT"
description: "Provides that law enforcement officers who appears before the court for prosecution of a violation of a protective order shall self-certify that the officer has successfully completed a specialized domestic violence prosecution training course."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1152"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1152 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Dimitri", "McKenney", "Patalano", "Raptakis", "Thompson", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-13"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a96ad8f1-8c66-468e-a473-a074d553912f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "d05c6424456c435dfb2d79637d07b7da9f232d0a59c195bcd1745888cb885c71"
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 1152 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- DOMESTIC ASSAULT

Provides that law enforcement officers who appears before the court for prosecution of a violation of a protective order shall self-certify that the officer has successfully completed a specialized domestic violence prosecution training course.

## Version chain

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

1. **1152** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1152.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appollonio — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-03** 07/03/2025 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a96ad8f1-8c66-468e-a473-a074d553912f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).