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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIALS (Restricts the use of a victim's gender or sexual orientation as a defense by any defendant claiming provocation, diminished capacity or self-defense and prohibits the court from allowing such information into evidence.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIALS (Restricts the use of a victim's gender or sexual orientation as a defense by any defendant claiming provocation, diminished capacity or self-defense and prohibits the court from allowing such information into evidence.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 3014"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3014 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calkin", "Nesselbush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-23"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4544f1b3-5d12-45dd-8c0d-2bf26b55c2d9"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "299df4cb5928c9f50d25c22419bfd35c219e96d968014cd2a157f223a9f7abe1"
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 3014 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- TRIALS (Restricts the use of a victim's gender or sexual orientation as a defense by any defendant claiming provocation, diminished capacity or self-defense and prohibits the court from allowing such information into evidence.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **3014** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S3014.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **511** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **270** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Calkin — primary (person)
- Nesselbush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/4544f1b3-5d12-45dd-8c0d-2bf26b55c2d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).