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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS"
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description: "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.\""
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
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legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "SB 2624"
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citation: "Rhode Island SB 2624 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "Lombardi", "Quezada", "Tikoian"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-03-01"
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last_action: "2024-06-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512"
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source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
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source_hash: "3acb7e6af26c4878dc5188022334cb55b5dc9f166f764bb78072e92a0aa204ce"
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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 2624 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- OPTICIANS -- QUALIFICATIONS
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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."
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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. **2624** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2624.pdf)
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## Votes
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- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage — **35–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Burke — primary (person)
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- Ciccone — primary (person)
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- Lombardi — primary (person)
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- Quezada — primary (person)
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- Tikoian — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2024)
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- **2024-03-21** 03/21/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
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- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
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- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
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- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
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- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
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- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
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- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/72a2cd0e-b0ca-431f-a999-d72c328dc512`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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