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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION"
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description: "Considers election officials and poll workers \"public officials\" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials."
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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 729"
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citation: "Rhode Island SB 729 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Britto", "Burke", "DiMario", "Dimitri", "Felag", "Gallo", "LaMountain", "Thompson", "Tikoian"]
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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: "2025-03-07"
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last_action: "2025-06-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a08e544-1570-4369-9e69-24edc89fa292"
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source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
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source_hash: "81890b764c417e80316c070558aa3c10662b7d7ef5071565c72c140fa95db8d6"
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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 729 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- THREATS AND EXTORTION
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Considers election officials and poll workers "public officials" for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
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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. **729 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0729A.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–6** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Appollonio — primary (person)
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- Britto — primary (person)
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- Burke — primary (person)
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- DiMario — primary (person)
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- Dimitri — primary (person)
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- Felag — primary (person)
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- Gallo — primary (person)
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- LaMountain — primary (person)
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- Thompson — 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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- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/27/2025)
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- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
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- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
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- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
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- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
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- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/6a08e544-1570-4369-9e69-24edc89fa292`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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