---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES"
description: "Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 361"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 361 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Felag", "Gallo", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Urso"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18cca703-a80c-4ad9-8916-8f10d6e5e939"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "aadc6a1bcd18c74dcab3c4b70d7b121af37a7f728949f3ef5b6e805fc223007f"
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 361 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.

## Version chain

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

1. **361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0361.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/12/2025)
- **2025-03-12** 03/12/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House 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/18cca703-a80c-4ad9-8916-8f10d6e5e939`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).