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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL"
description: "Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 474"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 474 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiMario", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Ujifusa", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e52394a2-87fc-41d0-bd5e-b57e2a721302"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "82e06d599e43ff1658d043d2191ae26e3cb985353ff7b8f45aec96b2ea6e46fb"
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 474 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **474 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0474aa.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **670** (pass) · upper
- AS AMENDED — **720** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **360** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Britto — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Ujifusa — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/18/2025)
- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/27/2025)
- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/03/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 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/e52394a2-87fc-41d0-bd5e-b57e2a721302`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).