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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Amends the laws regulating the aggregation of electrical loads by a municipality or group of municipalities; requires that at least one public hearing be held for review by its residents prior to adopting any plan; then approval by the PUC.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Amends the laws regulating the aggregation of electrical loads by a municipality or group of municipalities; requires that at least one public hearing be held for review by its residents prior to adopting any plan; then approval by the PUC.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 5536"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5536 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Public Utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carson", "Casimiro", "Edwards", "Regunberg", "Ruggiero"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-16"
+last_action: "2017-10-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30562d73-a8a5-485f-b3b4-d69ae0616138"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "95ef9557b96a6bec4a3dd4392cde57bd9e3505afb0c8d113990ac6b69ed7be05"
+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 HB 5536 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Amends the laws regulating the aggregation of electrical loads by a municipality or group of municipalities; requires that at least one public hearing be held for review by its residents prior to adopting any plan; then approval by the PUC.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5536 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H5536A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **67–6** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carson — primary (person)
+- Casimiro — primary (person)
+- Edwards — primary (person)
+- Regunberg — primary (person)
+- Ruggiero — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-16** 02/16/2017 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-02-24** 02/24/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2017-02-28** 02/28/2017 Meeting postponed (02/28/2017)
+- **2017-03-10** 03/10/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2017-03-13** 03/13/2017 Meeting postponed (03/14/2017)
+- **2017-03-13** 03/13/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2017-03-13** 03/13/2017 Meeting postponed (03/15/2017)
+- **2017-03-17** 03/17/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2017)
+- **2017-03-21** 03/21/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2017)
+- **2017-05-23** 05/23/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2017)
+- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Referred to Senate Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-26** 06/26/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/28/2017)
+- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017)
+- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-10-03** 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-10-05** 10/05/2017 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/30562d73-a8a5-485f-b3b4-d69ae0616138`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+