republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-383.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - VISITATION RIGHTS (Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.)	AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - VISITATION RIGHTS (Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 383	Rhode Island SB 383 (2017)	bill	Domestic Relations Children and Families Courts	enacted	Archambault Conley DiPalma Lombardi Lynch Prata	1	15	2	2017-03-02	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/62c6a67e-209e-4e5b-aebd-745a1e16ddcf	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	28eabed6b471cdb0b3a35871e23229ed693d483ee9775a4653377c062ad630af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 383 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - VISITATION RIGHTS (Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.)

Version chain

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

1. 383 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - — 69–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Archambault — primary (person)
• Conley — primary (person)
• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)
• Lynch Prata — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-02 03/02/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-07 03/07/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
• 2017-03-08 03/08/2017 Meeting postponed (03/09/2017)
• 2017-04-21 04/21/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2017)
• 2017-04-27 04/27/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-02 05/02/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/04/2017)
• 2017-05-04 05/04/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-05-05 05/05/2017 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-09-21 09/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-09-27 09/27/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62c6a67e-209e-4e5b-aebd-745a1e16ddcf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).