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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING"
+description: "Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5580"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5580 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boylan", "Cortvriend", "Cotter", "Edwards", "Handy", "Knight", "McGaw", "Potter", "Solomon", "Speakman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd7cfec5-a9a9-4adc-bc45-8a75a276b1e8"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "a2fac36ec627fab0bdcdc3d6681d007b0e41b94941f869e75e5059df81ce4afa"
+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 5580 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING
+
+Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5580** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5580.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boylan — primary (person)
+- Cortvriend — primary (person)
+- Cotter — primary (person)
+- Edwards — primary (person)
+- Handy — primary (person)
+- Knight — primary (person)
+- McGaw — primary (person)
+- Potter — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Speakman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2025-03-31** 03/31/2025 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/01/2025)
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/24/2025)
+- **2025-04-24** 04/24/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 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/dd7cfec5-a9a9-4adc-bc45-8a75a276b1e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+