---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLICITATION BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS"
description: "Increases the threshold limit for charitable organizations with an annual gross income of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 783"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 783 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiPalma", "LaMountain", "Murray", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-14"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edc021f3-22db-4555-a5da-8cabfcc864f3"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "929dcabf29e2b952b09bc624339b0c012accdaa1902ed246d57d88ccbb8ef06c"
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 783 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SOLICITATION BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

Increases the threshold limit for charitable organizations with an annual gross income of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more.

## Version chain

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

1. **783** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0783.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/06/2025)
- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage `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 read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/edc021f3-22db-4555-a5da-8cabfcc864f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).