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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 5727"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5727 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Attorney General", "Firearms", "Open Records", "Public Records", "State Affairs", "State Departments"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C Lima", "Casey", "Chippendale", "Corvese", "Craven", "Filippi", "Hawkins", "Kennedy", "Phillips", "Solomon"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-24"
+last_action: "2021-07-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37e7cbf9-36e8-4da9-98b1-0d2f7a2752b2"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "d80f88e11f8f6dcace40f7d7f8220f49fe7917d68a4539d2d8c0a0980616c05b"
+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 HB 5727 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5727 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/HouseText21/H5727A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **66–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C Lima — primary (person)
+- Casey — primary (person)
+- Chippendale — primary (person)
+- Corvese — primary (person)
+- Craven — primary (person)
+- Filippi — primary (person)
+- Hawkins — primary (person)
+- Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-24** 02/24/2021 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-15** 03/15/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2021)
+- **2021-03-19** 03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2021)
+- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Proposed Substitute
+- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Placed on House Calendar (06/30/2021)
+- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (07/01/2021)
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2021-07-06** 07/06/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-07-14** 07/14/2021 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/37e7cbf9-36e8-4da9-98b1-0d2f7a2752b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+