---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS"
description: "Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would also remove the standard of \"good moral character.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2624"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2624 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "Lombardi", "Quezada", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "3acb7e6af26c4878dc5188022334cb55b5dc9f166f764bb78072e92a0aa204ce"
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 2624 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS

Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would also remove the standard of "good moral character."

## Version chain

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

1. **2624** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2624.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Tikoian — 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`
- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2024)
- **2024-03-21** 03/21/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage `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 read and passed `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 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/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).