---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM"
description: "Enables cities and towns to enact enabling legislation authorizing a partner program to assist students with an IEP for specially designed physical education classes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7561"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7561 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abney", "Casimiro", "Cotter", "Craven", "Donovan", "Kislak", "McNamara", "Serpa", "Shekarchi", "Voas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-09"
last_action: "2024-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca793340-47ce-408b-abc5-a6928bdfcd3d"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "21e9412a313c444103a429a4d834776ee745adbd68f412946a74d42baab7221c"
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 7561 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM

Enables cities and towns to enact enabling legislation authorizing a partner program to assist students with an IEP for specially designed physical education classes.

## Version chain

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

1. **7561** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7561.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abney — primary (person)
- Casimiro — primary (person)
- Cotter — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Kislak — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)
- Serpa — primary (person)
- Shekarchi — primary (person)
- Voas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-09** 02/09/2024 Introduced, referred to House Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2024-03-02** 03/02/2024 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/06/2024)
- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/13/2024)
- **2024-03-13** 03/13/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-03-29** 03/29/2024 Scheduled for consideration (04/03/2024)
- **2024-04-03** 04/03/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** 04/05/2024 Placed on House Calendar (04/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** 04/11/2024 House read and passed `passage`
- **2024-04-16** 04/16/2024 Referred to Senate Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-26** 06/26/2024 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/ca793340-47ce-408b-abc5-a6928bdfcd3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).