---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS"
description: "Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 608"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 608 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Felag", "LaMountain", "Lawson", "Murray", "Rogers", "Thompson", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b42a2de3-cd3e-4bc1-8b58-c1c9db664657"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "68989fd2a8efd8d15be3ee9e005dd2c37100d8fe34180070e8dd8bf7611de121"
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 608 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS

Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.

## Version chain

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

1. **608** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0608.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appollonio — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** 03/06/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/27/2025)
- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/03/2025)
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/b42a2de3-cd3e-4bc1-8b58-c1c9db664657`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).