---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS"
description: "Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1006"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1006 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-02"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93286876-3d59-4ddd-b16d-ccfae48f652a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "b335f77883aeb689a9a54ce77922e5a73bf709c7ae6cdbf3e4ff5088787a1ba8"
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 1006 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS

Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified.

## Version chain

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

1. **1006 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1006A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **55–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/13/2025)
- **2025-05-13** 05/13/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** 06/30/2025 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/93286876-3d59-4ddd-b16d-ccfae48f652a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).