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legislation/us/states/ri/2022/sb-2503.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES--VIOLATIONS (Reduces the civil penalty for the first and second offenses for driving without a license or driving with a suspended license, and would make a third violation a civil offense and a fourth offense a misdemeanor punishable by a fine.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES--VIOLATIONS (Reduces the civil penalty for the first and second offenses for driving without a license or driving with a suspended license, and would make a third violation a civil offense and a fourth offense a misdemeanor punishable by a fine.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 2503"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2503 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Coyne", "F Lombardi", "McCaffrey", "Ruggerio"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-03-01"
+last_action: "2022-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fe71ae6-c518-4485-ad49-d975f6030e20"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "5421dc85ade21867f366d166f45981a6d5932e2375e41aaa79e9ca310a0a737c"
+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 2503 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES--VIOLATIONS (Reduces the civil penalty for the first and second offenses for driving without a license or driving with a suspended license, and would make a third violation a civil offense and a fourth offense a misdemeanor punishable by a fine.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2503 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2503Aaa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- -VIOLATIONS — **32–4** (pass) · upper
+- -VIOLATIONS — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Archambault — primary (person)
+- Coyne — primary (person)
+- F Lombardi — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+- Ruggerio — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-03-01** 03/01/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-18** 03/18/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/24/2022)
+- **2022-03-23** 03/23/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2022-03-24** 03/24/2022 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
+- **2022-03-24** 03/24/2022 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study `substitution`
+- **2022-05-20** 05/20/2022 Scheduled for consideration (05/24/2022)
+- **2022-05-23** 05/23/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2022-05-24** 05/24/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-05-25** 05/25/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/02/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-02** 06/02/2022 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2022-06-07** 06/07/2022 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
+- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2022-06-28** 06/28/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-06-29** 06/29/2022 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/0fe71ae6-c518-4485-ad49-d975f6030e20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+