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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 512"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 512 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Police & Fire", "Municipal Employees"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Felag", "Lombardi", "Lombardo", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-03-02"
+last_action: "2017-07-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c50c7da-2e73-4777-af79-ffec25d493fd"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "51e271b1c37c101aae9a3feb1915dd6bc7aa5f15eeac1334263cb4d6727f9077"
+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 512 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **512** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0512.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Lombardo — primary (person)
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-02** 03/02/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-03-31** 03/31/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2017)
+- **2017-04-05** 04/05/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
+- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2017)
+- **2017-06-13** 06/13/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
+- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
+- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 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/0c50c7da-2e73-4777-af79-ffec25d493fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+