---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS"
description: "Permits school districts to use release days for professional development; provided that, instruction time meets the yearly requirement of one thousand eighty (1,080) school hours."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2532"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2532 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cano", "Gallo", "LaMountain", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83842861-f7a8-403b-a036-342e938c9726"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "11035bd881712e51dcdf32990702b9499d67cf4c355569f3a362dd5d6b51e702"
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 2532 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS

Permits school districts to use release days for professional development; provided that, instruction time meets the yearly requirement of one thousand eighty (1,080) school hours.

## Version chain

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

1. **2532 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2532A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cano — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/24/2024)
- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-05-17** 05/17/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2024)
- **2024-05-22** 05/22/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-05-23** 05/23/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-23** 05/23/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/30/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Referred to House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2024)
- **2024-06-05** 06/05/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-29** 06/29/2024 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83842861-f7a8-403b-a036-342e938c9726`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).