---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT"
description: "Grants the family court jurisdiction to make findings for special immigrant juvenile status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors/petitioners under 21 years of age."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6120"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6120 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Batista"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-03-21"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21497641-6660-4e3d-a157-1c0b0129c972"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "ffaeea0e655c6d57fa00c9f1a20325f4b5327b51d534d6320de6e8b2604735ac"
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 6120 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN -- PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY COURT

Grants the family court jurisdiction to make findings for special immigrant juvenile status petitions, including determinations about dependency, parental reunification, and the child’s best interest, for minors/petitioners under 21 years of age.

## Version chain

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

1. **6120 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6120A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Batista — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/10/2025)
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2025)
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A 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/21497641-6660-4e3d-a157-1c0b0129c972`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).