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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would also remove the standard of "good moral character." us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2024 SB 2624 Rhode Island SB 2624 (2024)
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Rhode Island SB 2624 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS

Establishes a second avenue of qualification as an optician, to include successfully completing an apprenticeship program of not less than 4,100 hours in not less than 2 years. The act would also remove the standard of "good moral character."

Version chain

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

  1. 2624 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • IN CONCURRENCE — 700 (pass) · upper
  • Passage — 351 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Burke — primary (person)
  • Ciccone — primary (person)
  • Lombardi — primary (person)
  • Quezada — primary (person)
  • Tikoian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-03-01 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services introduction, referral-committee
  • 2024-03-15 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2024)
  • 2024-03-21 03/21/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2024-06-07 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
  • 2024-06-10 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2024-06-10 06/10/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2024) reading-3
  • 2024-06-12 06/12/2024 Senate read and passed passage
  • 2024-06-12 06/12/2024 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) reading-3
  • 2024-06-13 06/13/2024 House passed in concurrence passage
  • 2024-06-21 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2024-06-25 06/25/2024 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).