---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS"
description: "Establishes a reimbursement system for a municipalities cost of training public safety personnel when they are hired by a different municipality or public safety agency within Rhode Island within 3 years of receiving the public safety training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 849"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 849 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Gallo", "Gu", "Lawson", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-19"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0fb0616-d27d-4708-9c28-ae04a52e533f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "5e9d1433925dc79f764dbf5b946f7c92fa6b6ad45887357636be2ef17a002854"
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 849 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS

Establishes a reimbursement system for a municipalities cost of training public safety personnel when they are hired by a different municipality or public safety agency within Rhode Island within 3 years of receiving the public safety training.

## Version chain

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

1. **849 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0849aa.pdf)

## Votes

- Approval of Amendment — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-19** 03/19/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-16** 05/16/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/22/2025)
- **2025-05-22** 05/22/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 House passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 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/e0fb0616-d27d-4708-9c28-ae04a52e533f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).