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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES"
+description: "Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5050"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5050 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Brien", "Casey", "Cruz", "Giraldo", "Marszalkowski", "Messier", "Phillips", "Stewart", "Voas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-15"
+last_action: "2025-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad9fcde9-badb-4331-903b-4667e2cfd232"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "ba29cf8c34cdbdf6dd8c204d196d5905981732f217a1f9ca931d1a078d506ca0"
+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 5050 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
+
+Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5050 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5050A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alzate — primary (person)
+- Brien — primary (person)
+- Casey — primary (person)
+- Cruz — primary (person)
+- Giraldo — primary (person)
+- Marszalkowski — primary (person)
+- Messier — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Voas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-15** 01/15/2025 Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/06/2025)
+- **2025-02-06** 02/06/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/15/2025)
+- **2025-05-15** 05/15/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-16** 05/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (05/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-20** 05/20/2025 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2025)
+- **2025-06-11** 06/11/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/ad9fcde9-badb-4331-903b-4667e2cfd232`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+