RI SB 2983
died on adjournmentAN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- EXPUNGEMENT OF CRIMINAL RECORDS
Rhode Island · 2026 Regular Session · upper
Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.
Quick answers
Did RI SB 2983 pass?
No. RI SB 2983 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-05-29): 05/29/2026 Referred to House Judiciary
What is RI SB 2983 about?
Permits the expungement of records 5 years after the imposition of sentence for misdemeanors and 10 years after the imposition of sentence for felonies, and if the sentence is greater than 10 years, then, upon successful completion of the sentence.
Who sponsors RI SB 2983?
Vargas, Mack, DiMario and 5 others are the primary sponsors of RI SB 2983.
Description
Permits the expungement of records 5 years after the imposition of sentence for misdemeanors and 10 years after the imposition of sentence for felonies, and if the sentence is greater than 10 years, then, upon successful completion of the sentence.
- Introduced
- 2026-03-04
- Latest action
- 2026-05-29 — 05/29/2026 Referred to House Judiciary
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Sponsors
- Vargasprimary
- Mackprimary
- DiMarioprimary
- Euerprimary
- McKenneyprimary
- Bissaillonprimary
- LaMountainprimary
- Quezadaprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-05-29
05/29/2026 Referred to House Judiciary
referral-committee
2026-05-28
05/28/2026 Senate read and passed
passage
2026-05-22
05/22/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/28/2026)
reading-3
2026-05-21
05/21/2026 Committee recommends passage
committee-passage-favorable
2026-05-19
05/19/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/21/2026)
2026-03-10
03/10/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
committee-failure
2026-03-06
03/06/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2026)
2026-03-04
03/04/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
introduction,referral-committee
Versions
- 2983Compare
Documents
Votes
Passage
2026-05-28 · pass · 29-7
Member-level votes (38)
- Acosta: yes
- Appollonio, Jr.: no
- Bell: yes
- Bissaillon: yes
- Britto: yes
- Burke: yes
- Ciccone: yes
- de la Cruz: no
- DiMario: yes
- Dimitri: yes
- DiPalma: yes
- Euer: yes
- Famiglietti: yes
- Felag: yes
- Gallo: yes
- Gu: yes
- Kallman: yes
- LaMountain: yes
- Lauria: yes
- Mack: yes
- McKenney: yes
- Morgan: no
- Murray: yes
- Paolino: no
- Patalano: no
- Pearson: yes
- Quezada: yes
- Raptakis: no
- Rogers: no
- Sosnowski: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tikoian: yes
- Ujifusa: yes
- Urso: yes
- Valverde: other
- Vargas: other
- Zurier: yes
- Madam President: yes
Related bills
No related bills recorded for this bill.
Official source
Attribution
Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:31:46.990152Z
Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:
Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:
Use this data
Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=RI&identifier=SB 2983. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.
Known limitations
- Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
- Committee referrals are not yet captured.
See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.