---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION"
description: "Allows the sexual offender board of review to use, in addition to applicable validated risk assessment tools, a structured professional judgment approach to determine the level of risk a registered sex offender poses to the community."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2826"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2826 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lombardi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-22"
last_action: "2024-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43eb9ad3-9cdd-46e1-83a1-8fbadc0b41b8"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "678ff5380f3e43159b2ea47840ce4c7de5e1550cf9bba2d51d92cf3473af658f"
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 2826 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION

Allows the sexual offender board of review to use, in addition to applicable validated risk assessment tools, a structured professional judgment approach to determine the level of risk a registered sex offender poses to the community.

## Version chain

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

1. **2826** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2826.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lombardi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-22** 03/22/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** 03/29/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2024)
- **2024-04-02** 04/02/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-04-23** 04/23/2024 Scheduled for consideration (04/25/2024)
- **2024-04-25** 04/25/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/02/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-02** 05/02/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-17** 05/17/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/21/2024)
- **2024-05-21** 05/21/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-24** 05/24/2024 Placed on House Calendar (05/29/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-29** 05/29/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 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/43eb9ad3-9cdd-46e1-83a1-8fbadc0b41b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).