---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (Provides for greater school-based management at the school level and expands the duties of school improvement teams and establishes a new chapter on education accountability..)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (Provides for greater school-based management at the school level and expands the duties of school improvement teams and establishes a new chapter on education accountability..)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 865"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 865 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Goodwin", "McCaffrey", "Pearson", "Ruggerio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-08"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/457ea24b-5916-4766-b332-f5fbfa18d9fe"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "b522edf966e43b023ec85c41c0619adaddbd4609a1c03c3ec104de0e01ffda9c"
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 865 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (Provides for greater school-based management at the school level and expands the duties of school improvement teams and establishes a new chapter on education accountability..)

## Version chain

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

1. **865 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0865A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **59–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Algiere — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-08** 05/08/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-10** 05/10/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/15/2019)
- **2019-05-15** 05/15/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for consideration
- **2019-05-28** 05/28/2019 Meeting postponed (05/29/2019)
- **2019-05-28** 05/28/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2019)
- **2019-06-05** 06/05/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2019)
- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Meeting postponed (06/19/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed Sub A 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/457ea24b-5916-4766-b332-f5fbfa18d9fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).