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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY (Modifies Warwick Sewer Authority Act by expanding number of members; increasing number of votes for bylaw changes; providing for as many as thirty year installment payments; relieves owners with functioning septic systems from assessments for 20 years.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY (Modifies Warwick Sewer Authority Act by expanding number of members; increasing number of votes for bylaw changes; providing for as many as thirty year installment payments; relieves owners with functioning septic systems from assessments for 20 years.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 965"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 965 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "McKenney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-06-11"
+last_action: "2019-07-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c38844e5-f607-4ece-a508-3f094ffcd9aa"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "4dcd5397f802f8b65a2c948c62109a915dbc3c9c1250c321ab825b166a5683ae"
+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 965 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY (Modifies Warwick Sewer Authority Act by expanding number of members; increasing number of votes for bylaw changes; providing for as many as thirty year installment payments; relieves owners with functioning septic systems from assessments for 20 years.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **965** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0965.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** 06/11/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/19/2019)
+- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/25/2019)
+- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-19** 07/19/2019 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/c38844e5-f607-4ece-a508-3f094ffcd9aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+