---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT"
description: "Authorizes the town of Smithfield to establish a juvenile hearing board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6408"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6408 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Costantino", "Santucci"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-06-11"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a98958ba-a494-4a7e-9f6d-4c52bfc1f885"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "e4a367bec17cc34ce5ddc83646779a4780556584ba0aa9c204c8aba4a700938e"
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 6408 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- FAMILY COURT

Authorizes the town of Smithfield to establish a juvenile hearing board.

## Version chain

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

1. **6408** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6408.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Costantino — primary (person)
- Santucci — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** 06/11/2025 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/16/2025)
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Committee recommends passage `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 read and passed `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 in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/a98958ba-a494-4a7e-9f6d-4c52bfc1f885`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).