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legislation/us/states/ri/2025/sb-1139.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT"
+description: "Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 1139"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 1139 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-06-06"
+last_action: "2025-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c174672-3f17-4a68-9200-f211c5627289"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "0d656200625cdf8945c45305be06d4839bfe1fe046fb79763d62b50866fb5cc7"
+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 1139 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT
+
+Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **1139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1139.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-07** 06/07/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/10/2025)
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 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/8c174672-3f17-4a68-9200-f211c5627289`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+