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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS"
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description: "Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
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legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 1006"
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citation: "Rhode Island SB 1006 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Britto"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 12
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-05-02"
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last_action: "2025-06-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93286876-3d59-4ddd-b16d-ccfae48f652a"
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source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
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source_hash: "b335f77883aeb689a9a54ce77922e5a73bf709c7ae6cdbf3e4ff5088787a1ba8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
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---
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# Rhode Island SB 1006 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS
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Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **1006 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1006A.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- IN CONCURRENCE — **55–4** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Britto — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/13/2025)
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- **2025-05-13** 05/13/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
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- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
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- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
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- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
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- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-30** 06/30/2025 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93286876-3d59-4ddd-b16d-ccfae48f652a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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