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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS"
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description: "Makes traffic accident data a public record, subject to federal law."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
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legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "SB 2480"
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citation: "Rhode Island SB 2480 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "DiPalma", "Dimitri", "Kallman", "Lauria", "Mack", "Murray", "Raptakis", "Thompson", "Urso"]
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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: "2026-02-06"
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last_action: "2026-06-19"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67548463-a025-48c5-807a-ab522ad7223d"
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source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
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source_hash: "69416c6cf12323d6e8d35a912759df2c74b9ad49a40db8c73cf65033d903c626"
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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 2480 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS -- ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS
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Makes traffic accident data a public record, subject to federal law.
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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. **2480** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2480.pdf)
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## Votes
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- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage — **33–5** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Appollonio — primary (person)
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- DiPalma — primary (person)
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- Dimitri — primary (person)
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- Kallman — primary (person)
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- Lauria — primary (person)
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- Mack — primary (person)
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- Murray — primary (person)
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- Raptakis — primary (person)
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- Thompson — primary (person)
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- Urso — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-02-06** 02/06/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2026-05-15** 05/15/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/21/2026)
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- **2026-05-21** 05/21/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
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- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2026)
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- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
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- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
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- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
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- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
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- **2026-06-16** 06/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-06-19** 06/19/2026 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/67548463-a025-48c5-807a-ab522ad7223d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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