---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE KITS (Requires any entity that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault evidence kits to submit a report to the department of health, annually, setting forth the total number of untested kits in possession of such entity.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE KITS (Requires any entity that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault evidence kits to submit a report to the department of health, annually, setting forth the total number of untested kits in possession of such entity.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7079"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7079 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Bennett", "Caldwell", "Cassar", "Cortvriend", "Craven", "Edwards", "Fogarty", "Kazarian", "McEntee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53544012-3c35-4a3c-9504-15967dbe7d38"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a54678f474404cd15df70606ea97968318a981875c89a9ed24c65258f968205c"
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 HB 7079 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE KITS (Requires any entity that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault evidence kits to submit a report to the department of health, annually, setting forth the total number of untested kits in possession of such entity.)

## Version chain

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

1. **7079 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/HouseText22/H7079A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ajello — primary (person)
- Bennett — primary (person)
- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Cassar — primary (person)
- Cortvriend — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** 01/12/2022 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** 02/04/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2022-02-06** 02/06/2022 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/08/2022)
- **2022-03-25** 03/25/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
- **2022-03-29** 03/29/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-06-12** 06/12/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
- **2022-06-13** 06/13/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2022-06-14** 06/14/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-29** 06/29/2022 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/53544012-3c35-4a3c-9504-15967dbe7d38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).