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legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2872.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- POLICE CHIEF EMERITUS GARY MALIKOWSKI (Authorizes a police chief emeritus special license plate for Gary Malikowski, former police chief of West Greenwich.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- POLICE CHIEF EMERITUS GARY MALIKOWSKI (Authorizes a police chief emeritus special license plate for Gary Malikowski, former police chief of West Greenwich.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2872"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2872 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Plates (M.V.)", "Police & Fire", "West Greenwich"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Morgan", "Raptakis"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-05-03"
+last_action: "2018-07-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b49fcc6d-b81f-45dd-b888-87da8f0acb09"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "75c331eab84b997afa0f655fe645dda6157e1f646864811fda413e1bd0e2fba2"
+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 2872 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- POLICE CHIEF EMERITUS GARY MALIKOWSKI (Authorizes a police chief emeritus special license plate for Gary Malikowski, former police chief of West Greenwich.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2872 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2872A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-03** 05/03/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-18** 05/18/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/23/2018)
+- **2018-05-23** 05/23/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2018-06-01** 06/01/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2018)
+- **2018-06-06** 06/06/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-07-10** 07/10/2018 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b49fcc6d-b81f-45dd-b888-87da8f0acb09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+