---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY"
description: "Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 324"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 324 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Britto", "DiMario", "Dimitri", "Euer", "Mack", "Sosnowski", "Valverde", "Vargas", "Zurier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16acc5b9-c66d-4147-9587-c4bceb1611d0"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "33d2c98e12a786eea4cc035a9a7b7b8d7a384c117c806b4a0f308b5e403c49c9"
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 324 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY

Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.

## Version chain

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

1. **324** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0324.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Britto — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)
- Zurier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/09/2025)
- **2025-04-09** 04/09/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/28/2025)
- **2025-05-28** 05/28/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/03/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 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/16acc5b9-c66d-4147-9587-c4bceb1611d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).