---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE--BENEFITS"
description: "Mandates paid leave by allowing qualified employees to take medical leave to undergo donation procedures, medical tests, and recovery related to being a living organ donor, or bone marrow transplant donor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6065"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6065 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Cruz", "Furtado", "Giraldo", "Handy", "McGaw", "McNamara", "Potter", "Slater", "Speakman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40a19570-0940-4a53-a17f-918c5d8c0287"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f64f50cf8081584ad7293502102ab66e7333b689e3599fd098d80fd20a727c8b"
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 6065 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE--BENEFITS

Mandates paid leave by allowing qualified employees to take medical leave to undergo donation procedures, medical tests, and recovery related to being a living organ donor, or bone marrow transplant donor.

## Version chain

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

1. **6065 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6065aa.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- AS AMENDED — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alzate — primary (person)
- Cruz — primary (person)
- Furtado — primary (person)
- Giraldo — primary (person)
- Handy — primary (person)
- McGaw — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)
- Potter — primary (person)
- Slater — primary (person)
- Speakman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-12** 03/12/2025 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2025)
- **2025-03-19** 03/19/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/40a19570-0940-4a53-a17f-918c5d8c0287`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).