republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-101.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (Establishes a process by which a virtual education plan may be established and used by school districts during inclement weather which would count as a school day, provided that the plan is approved by the council on elementary and secondary education.)	AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (Establishes a process by which a virtual education plan may be established and used by school districts during inclement weather which would count as a school day, provided that the plan is approved by the council on elementary and secondary education.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 101	Rhode Island SB 101 (2017)	bill	Cities & Towns Education Children and Families Minors	enacted	Picard	1	14	2	2017-02-01	2017-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/3acafb60-8ec1-4ba6-8e0f-1774e5b07f80	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	2c9106f7b910413595df39e8150193853fab532e8a6c0c78382312a181e213bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 101 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (Establishes a process by which a virtual education plan may be established and used by school districts during inclement weather which would count as a school day, provided that the plan is approved by the council on elementary and secondary education.)

Version chain

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

1. 101 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• IN CONCURRENCE — 69–0 (pass) · legislature
• COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS — 36–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Picard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-01 02/01/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Education referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-31 03/31/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2017)
• 2017-04-05 04/05/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-05-19 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2017)
• 2017-05-24 05/24/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-25 05/25/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2017)
• 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-01 06/01/2017 Referred to House H.E.W. referral-committee
• 2017-06-24 06/24/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2017)
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-07-18 07/18/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-19 07/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3acafb60-8ec1-4ba6-8e0f-1774e5b07f80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).