---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN"
description: "Adds staff of day camps and residential camps for youth to the definition of \"person responsible for a child's welfare\" within the chapter on abused and neglected children."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2945"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2945 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "LaMountain", "McKenney", "Patalano", "Raptakis", "Tikoian", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-04"
last_action: "2026-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1009067-1338-490b-94a5-2d8b57fd5e8c"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a031b214a8d7a0084268f24e15983d8395cbcf8f7b64c6a8c51cd7f9d0eaa787"
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 2945 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN

Adds staff of day camps and residential camps for youth to the definition of "person responsible for a child's welfare" within the chapter on abused and neglected children.

## Version chain

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

1. **2945** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2945.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-04** 03/04/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-24** 04/24/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/30/2026)
- **2026-04-30** 04/30/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2026-05-19** 05/19/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/21/2026)
- **2026-05-21** 05/21/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/28/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-05-28** 05/28/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/08/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-08** 06/08/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2026-06-16** 06/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-19** 06/19/2026 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/b1009067-1338-490b-94a5-2d8b57fd5e8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).