---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT"
description: "This act would repeal the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 188 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Felag", "Gu", "Kallman", "McKenney", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Urso", "Valverde", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa653c04-9218-4425-bee6-35afba49ebe0"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "feb2a571ca53c74e9bc158e048d77439a58a04ba82d1b8c1b94601043923f480"
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 188 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT

This act would repeal the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **188 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0188Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** 02/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Committee transferred to Senate Labor and Gaming
- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/17/2025)
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-02** 07/02/2025 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/fa653c04-9218-4425-bee6-35afba49ebe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).