---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE"
description: "Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 481"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 481 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Dimitri", "Felag", "Kallman", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bc3175b-9254-4a3b-ad6d-f8b821b05200"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "714dce61df6a6c19d70204e7775db358d512908c0e03ccada4116a902b371a6b"
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 481 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials.

## Version chain

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

1. **481** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0481.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/18/2025)
- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 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`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/4bc3175b-9254-4a3b-ad6d-f8b821b05200`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).