---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES"
description: "Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 136 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Euer", "Gu", "LaMountain", "Morgan", "Paolino", "Rogers", "Sosnowski", "Ujifusa", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e655e42-1ff8-4179-af28-6f966755d337"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "74f1c4409e6455735f043cf64939b30e1332fca88241dc13582c47869925a5f3"
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 136 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- ELECTRONIC IMAGING DEVICES

Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.

## Version chain

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

1. **136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0136.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **68–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Paolino — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Ujifusa — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `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`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for 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`
- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-02** 07/02/2025 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/0e655e42-1ff8-4179-af28-6f966755d337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).