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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL EMERGENCY DRILLS ACT	Makes revisions to the number, timing, and procedures to be followed when schools grades K through 12 implement fire drills, evacuation drills, and crisis response drills, designed to protect the health and safety of students.	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2024	SB 2950	Rhode Island SB 2950 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bissaillon Burke Cano DiMario Kallman Lauria McKenney Murray Pearson Valverde	1	10	2	2024-04-05	2024-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/68c1ef3e-4833-4c59-95ca-8e3c506c644a	https://status.rilegislature.gov/	8a3f1376e121489f2390320bf90f63295db6683be03907f9ca736c9c000c8688	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2950 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL EMERGENCY DRILLS ACT

Makes revisions to the number, timing, and procedures to be followed when schools grades K through 12 implement fire drills, evacuation drills, and crisis response drills, designed to protect the health and safety of students.

Version chain

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

1. 2950 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• IN CONCURRENCE — 75–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bissaillon — primary (person)
• Burke — primary (person)
• Cano — primary (person)
• DiMario — primary (person)
• Kallman — primary (person)
• Lauria — primary (person)
• McKenney — primary (person)
• Murray — primary (person)
• Pearson — primary (person)
• Valverde — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-05 04/05/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Education introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-31 05/31/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/04/2024)
• 2024-06-03 06/03/2024 Proposed Substitute substitution
• 2024-06-04 06/04/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-04 06/04/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) reading-3
• 2024-06-06 06/06/2024 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2024-06-08 06/08/2024 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/11/2024) reading-3
• 2024-06-11 06/11/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2024-06-12 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-17 06/17/2024 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68c1ef3e-4833-4c59-95ca-8e3c506c644a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).