---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT"
description: "Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training. The operator of the premises shall maintain records of the completed training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 549"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 549 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "Dimitri", "LaMountain", "Murray", "Thompson", "Urso"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56113463-15af-49a3-a63d-e9856426e3ca"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "e8a4c7bb1a1ebf6080ee320c549d08f2750ed481c7a57090481c88b3b63cc395"
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 549 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION NOTICE ACT

Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training. The operator of the premises shall maintain records of the completed training.

## Version chain

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

1. **549 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0549aa.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `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`
- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-15** 06/15/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed as amended 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/56113463-15af-49a3-a63d-e9856426e3ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).