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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION -- CAPITAL CENTER COMMISSION"
+description: "Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 721"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 721 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Bissaillon", "Ciccone", "Mack", "Quezada"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad06d56b-a211-4d1e-a508-42443425d797"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "13c309a348672d1f00a6d7439dd670d266ba28eafb8a5c23ff572bd9ea8738a7"
+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 721 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMISSION -- CAPITAL CENTER COMMISSION
+
+Repeals legislation establishing the Capital Center Commission, which is a special development district commission for downtown Providence.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **721** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0721.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/20/2025)
+- **2025-03-20** 03/20/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 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/ad06d56b-a211-4d1e-a508-42443425d797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+