republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-106.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires the department of education to consider incorporating media literacy education in the basic education program.)	AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires the department of education to consider incorporating media literacy education in the basic education program.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 106	Rhode Island SB 106 (2017)	bill	Education Children and Families Minors	enacted	Conley Metts Picard Satchell	1	10	2	2017-02-01	2017-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/1334e07e-5d5c-43f6-9d84-0a2f5a245990	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	3a4ddb5f4ae067656437b7d6b8b4cd034c8f09ac1541a7bc504e76c9c811f65b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 106 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - CURRICULUM (Requires the department of education to consider incorporating media literacy education in the basic education program.)

Version chain

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

1. 106 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 32–2 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 70–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Conley — primary (person)
• Metts — primary (person)
• Picard — primary (person)
• Satchell — 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
• 2017-04-28 04/28/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2017)
• 2017-05-03 05/03/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-09 05/09/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2017)
• 2017-05-11 05/11/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-05-12 05/12/2017 Referred to House H.E.W. referral-committee
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 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/1334e07e-5d5c-43f6-9d84-0a2f5a245990. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).