---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMMISSION ON THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING (Provides conditions to lawfully permit a state employee to be employed as an interpreter or a CART provider outside of the normal working hours.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMMISSION ON THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING (Provides conditions to lawfully permit a state employee to be employed as an interpreter or a CART provider outside of the normal working hours.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 305 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Handicapped", "Health & Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Metts", "Nesselbush", "Quezada", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd499760-e7fa-4ab1-8e9a-1f7de9fb2e91"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "a41e8d0c47e8153bb4ca71d8cadad8685bb63a2854acaef2223ba7f04b4eb123"
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 305 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMMISSION ON THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING (Provides conditions to lawfully permit a state employee to be employed as an interpreter or a CART provider outside of the normal working hours.)

## Version chain

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

1. **305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0305.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Crowley — primary (person)
- Metts — primary (person)
- Nesselbush — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** 02/13/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** 05/23/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/30/2019)
- **2019-05-30** 05/30/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2019)
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2019)
- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/24/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 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/dd499760-e7fa-4ab1-8e9a-1f7de9fb2e91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).