---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE"
description: "Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3180"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3180 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Murray", "Patalano", "Sosnowski", "Thompson", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-04-03"
last_action: "2026-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c4e4820-e049-4858-847f-6cc3c955769f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "89de22d40de6a9bee77746eade8c2c829751bcb118d55a90c5b2bde9aec2843f"
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 3180 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE

Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person.

## Version chain

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

1. **3180** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S3180.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **32–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-03** 04/03/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-05-15** 05/15/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/20/2026)
- **2026-05-20** 05/20/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2026-06-07** 06/07/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2026)
- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2026-06-18** 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-23** 06/23/2026 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/9c4e4820-e049-4858-847f-6cc3c955769f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).