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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES"
+description: "Creates a new motor vehicle registration for \"forestry vehicles\" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where prohibited."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 679"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 679 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-03-07"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1575d335-7793-43e3-8674-59e131c6bcff"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "706dbc367c28e085c0364729c323a174b09426d3f27674d7cb7ec856edc47209"
+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 679 (2025) — AN ACT AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
+
+Creates a new motor vehicle registration for "forestry vehicles" also provides that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where prohibited.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **679 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0679aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AS AMENDED — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+- RECONSIDERATION — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **34–2** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **33–4** (pass) · upper
+- AS AMENDED — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/15/2025)
+- **2025-05-15** 05/15/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2025)
+- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House voted to reconsider
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1575d335-7793-43e3-8674-59e131c6bcff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+