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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Provides that any minority business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Provides that any minority business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 109"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 109 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business & Professions", "Equal Rights/Discrimination"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cano", "Lynch Prata", "Metts", "Pearson", "Quezada"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-24"
+last_action: "2019-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b794d633-1f8c-4fe5-9cc6-5e1d999ab0bb"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "390c8480e0ab3e1a8183730facdccf3ee07d4a70fe1cc8120d8fbe1edd6032bc"
+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 109 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Provides that any minority business enterprise that is certified under the Federal Small Business Act shall be deemed certified by the department of administration as a minority business enterprise.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **109 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0109A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cano — primary (person)
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- Metts — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-24** 01/24/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** 02/22/2019 Scheduled for hearing (02/26/2019)
+- **2019-02-26** 02/26/2019 Committee heard
+- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2019)
+- **2019-06-03** 06/03/2019 Proposed Substitute
+- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-05** 06/05/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2019)
+- **2019-06-11** 06/11/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Referred to House Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/19/2019)
+- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/24/2019)
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 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/b794d633-1f8c-4fe5-9cc6-5e1d999ab0bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+