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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 1004"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 1004 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Holidays", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DiPalma", "Felag", "Lynch Prata", "Raptakis", "Seveney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-06-29"
+last_action: "2017-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95e4107b-e297-438c-9f38-e301d7e69a94"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "276239290ae4284e22f06020ff3cbb57f96ed37bfd631fab257680b17c83a0e8"
+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 SB 1004 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **1004** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S1004.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
+- RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF — **69–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Seveney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar
+- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/30/2017)
+- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2017-09-15** 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
+- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-09-21** 09/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-09-27** 09/27/2017 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/95e4107b-e297-438c-9f38-e301d7e69a94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+