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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES"
+description: "Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5882"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5882 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cortvriend", "Corvese", "Donovan", "Finkelman", "Fogarty", "Knight", "McGaw", "Morales", "Solomon", "Spears"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-28"
+last_action: "2025-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2718d7b2-9ca2-47d2-b268-f3da51c78ab9"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "02a425e92b320813b7f5babe34cfbf1f1169f7bd92a0053e76273e09db39014e"
+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 5882 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES
+
+Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5882 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5882A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **68–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cortvriend — primary (person)
+- Corvese — primary (person)
+- Donovan — primary (person)
+- Finkelman — primary (person)
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- Knight — primary (person)
+- McGaw — primary (person)
+- Morales — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Spears — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/13/2025)
+- **2025-03-13** 03/13/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/08/2025)
+- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Placed on House Calendar (05/29/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 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/2718d7b2-9ca2-47d2-b268-f3da51c78ab9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+