---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- BENEFITS"
description: "Provides temporary caregivers benefits to any eligible bone marrow transplant donor or living organ donor and would provide definitions for both"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 829"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 829 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Ciccone", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Thompson", "Urso", "Valverde"]
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/2a546c47-7d0d-4130-8747-f02a8def6227"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "23cf9ba4c1e6384cf996d9ebbcf9be728ac0f7b52c4293ce10633e577dfcc802"
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 829 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- BENEFITS

Provides temporary caregivers benefits to any eligible bone marrow transplant donor or living organ donor and would provide definitions for both

## Version chain

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

1. **829 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0829A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2025)
- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-01** 06/01/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2025)
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on House 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/2a546c47-7d0d-4130-8747-f02a8def6227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).