---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT"
description: "Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 296 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bell", "Bissaillon", "Burke", "Euer", "LaMountain", "Lauria", "McKenney", "Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2353b33a-0888-4723-ab64-912716c95788"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "af46933f111d446d3150e560b2621471006e723624eb1db7c4ff1a1f4465fb67"
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 296 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT

Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.

## Version chain

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

1. **296** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0296.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Bell — primary (person)
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** 02/13/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/25/2025)
- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (04/01/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** 04/01/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/2353b33a-0888-4723-ab64-912716c95788`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).