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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES"
+description: "Empowers the division of motor vehicles to make available special motor vehicle registration plates for the not-for-profit entity, Dominican independence and heritage award committee of RI."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 8333"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 8333 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Batista", "Diaz", "Felix", "Giraldo", "O'Brien", "Perez", "Slater", "Solomon", "Stewart"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2026-03-20"
+last_action: "2026-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fba0089b-9755-4fd6-bbbc-0b86d690483a"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "a79080849a831d8527e919f183e5028ca35b2df9f6a7f55c814fca09193a4101"
+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 8333 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
+
+Empowers the division of motor vehicles to make available special motor vehicle registration plates for the not-for-profit entity, Dominican independence and heritage award committee of RI.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **8333 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/HouseText26/H8333A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **67–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alzate — primary (person)
+- Batista — primary (person)
+- Diaz — primary (person)
+- Felix — primary (person)
+- Giraldo — primary (person)
+- O'Brien — primary (person)
+- Perez — primary (person)
+- Slater — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-03-20** 03/20/2026 Introduced, referred to House Special Legislation `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-24** 04/24/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2026-04-29** 04/29/2026 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/30/2026)
+- **2026-05-08** 05/08/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/12/2026)
+- **2026-05-12** 05/12/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/28/2026)
+- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2026-05-28** 05/28/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-05-29** 05/29/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/04/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-04** 06/04/2026 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-18** 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-23** 06/23/2026 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/fba0089b-9755-4fd6-bbbc-0b86d690483a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+