Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ri/2024/sb-2278.md

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- SENIOR SAVINGS PROTECTION ACT"
+description: "Prohibits the charging of any fees to a senior citizen who is 65 years of age or older for a hard-copy paper bill, invoice or statement. The violation of this provision would be a deceptive trade practice subject to a $500 fine."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2278"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2278 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke", "Euer", "LaMountain", "Lauria", "Lombardi", "McKenney", "Quezada", "Raptakis", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-12"
+last_action: "2024-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f9b6989-5ad9-48b0-a471-b2cd4ed87b20"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "e1b3ace7a8f56b97196b3e7b2d57546e7ba3d3b071581affa68b69e6d1371b49"
+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 2278 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- SENIOR SAVINGS PROTECTION ACT
+
+Prohibits the charging of any fees to a senior citizen who is 65 years of age or older for a hard-copy paper bill, invoice or statement. The violation of this provision would be a deceptive trade practice subject to a $500 fine.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2278 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2278A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-12** 02/12/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/12/2024)
+- **2024-03-12** 03/12/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/07/2024)
+- **2024-05-06** 05/06/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-05-07** 05/07/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-08** 05/08/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/14/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-14** 05/14/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2024-05-15** 05/15/2024 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-19** 05/19/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/22/2024)
+- **2024-05-22** 05/22/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-24** 05/24/2024 Placed on House Calendar (05/30/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 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/9f9b6989-5ad9-48b0-a471-b2cd4ed87b20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+