---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION"
description: "Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2609"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2609 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Euer", "Gallo", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Murray", "Quezada", "Sosnowski", "Ujifusa", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c0df69a-932a-47cc-966d-7612d84eeb13"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f18a6959436f69ebdfefb4af0f6a7b143ee702b2810a09cb63c8d0e061d3fc4e"
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 2609 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION

Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram.

## Version chain

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

1. **2609 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2609A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Ujifusa — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/30/2024)
- **2024-04-30** 04/30/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/1c0df69a-932a-47cc-966d-7612d84eeb13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).