---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT"
description: "Grants Rhode Island's family court jurisdiction to make findings for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors under twenty-one (21) years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 809"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 809 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bissaillon", "Euer", "Gu", "Mack", "Quezada", "Ujifusa", "Zurier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-14"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e1a584a-f444-4154-a9ca-c3c3ea8d8999"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "86536d415a71722fb2622519ff51300d4dfbc51e39bca52bd4eff883762b0e58"
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 809 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT

Grants Rhode Island's family court jurisdiction to make findings for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors under twenty-one (21) years.

## Version chain

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

1. **809 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0809A.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **60–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Ujifusa — primary (person)
- Zurier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/13/2025)
- **2025-05-13** 05/13/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2025)
- **2025-06-11** 06/11/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A 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/4e1a584a-f444-4154-a9ca-c3c3ea8d8999`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).