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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - VISITATION RIGHTS (Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - VISITATION RIGHTS (Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 5903"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5903 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Grandparents Rights", "Domestic Relations", "Children and Families", "Courts", "Minors"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Coughlin", "Lombardi", "Mendonca", "Shanley", "Solomon"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-03-10"
+last_action: "2017-07-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72c10f64-5531-4cfc-9525-eb0517f8a5b9"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "7c62f0a8e12b9fe2334ba416ac52db234565e4f37516c638a9d840a82b1a0472"
+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 5903 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - VISITATION RIGHTS (Establishes guidelines for the family court to use to decide petitions for visitation by grandparents based on a best interest of the grandchild standard.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5903** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H5903.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Coughlin — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Mendonca — primary (person)
+- Shanley — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-10** 03/10/2017 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-03-10** 03/10/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2017-03-15** 03/15/2017 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/15/2017)
+- **2017-04-20** 04/20/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2017)
+- **2017-04-26** 04/26/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/29/2017)
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/29/2017)
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
+- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-07-13** 07/13/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-07-18** 07/18/2017 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/72c10f64-5531-4cfc-9525-eb0517f8a5b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+