---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT"
description: "Requires that any state agency, state institution of higher education, and quasi-public agency that engages in printing more than 50 copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use a state-owned or operated print shop."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 668"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 668 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "DiPalma", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-07"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c602101-7190-48b4-966f-f1eb75c34b35"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "b625c3e7cc05f42dba73e41136515e1507a28461cd44c6645bc976cc1d45e9ac"
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 668 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STATE-OWNED AND OPERATED PRINTING FACILITIES PREFERENCE ACT

Requires that any state agency, state institution of higher education, and quasi-public agency that engages in printing more than 50 copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use a state-owned or operated print shop.

## Version chain

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

1. **668 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0668A.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–8** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **33–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/29/2025)
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A 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/9c602101-7190-48b4-966f-f1eb75c34b35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).