republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-614.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 HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Requires all CASA (court-appointed special advocate) volunteers to first pass DCYF clearance as well as a national criminal background check before qualifying for appointment by the court.)	AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Requires all CASA (court-appointed special advocate) volunteers to first pass DCYF clearance as well as a national criminal background check before qualifying for appointment by the court.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 614	Rhode Island SB 614 (2017)	bill	DCYF Children and Families Human Services Courts	enacted	Algiere Jabour Lombardi Lynch Prata McCaffrey	1	14	2	2017-03-15	2017-07-05	openstates	ocd-bill/b46ef55d-bce8-413e-8297-1e7d1a5a70f0	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	cdd7a1fbb2ef6ee24a5d9313c96b7efa385f94c1230429dcba6c136e4baa4428	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 614 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Requires all CASA (court-appointed special advocate) volunteers to first pass DCYF clearance as well as a national criminal background check before qualifying for appointment by the court.)

Version chain

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

1. 614 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 36–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 71–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Algiere — primary (person)
• Jabour — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)
• Lynch Prata — primary (person)
• McCaffrey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-15 03/15/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-21 04/21/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2017)
• 2017-04-27 04/27/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-02 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2017)
• 2017-06-06 06/06/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-08 06/08/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2017)
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2017-06-15 06/15/2017 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-06-17 06/17/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2017)
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-05 07/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b46ef55d-bce8-413e-8297-1e7d1a5a70f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).