---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1004"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1004 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Holidays", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiPalma", "Felag", "Lynch Prata", "Raptakis", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-29"
last_action: "2017-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95e4107b-e297-438c-9f38-e301d7e69a94"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "276239290ae4284e22f06020ff3cbb57f96ed37bfd631fab257680b17c83a0e8"
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 1004 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **1004** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S1004.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
- RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF — **69–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/30/2017)
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-09-15** 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-09-21** 09/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-09-27** 09/27/2017 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/95e4107b-e297-438c-9f38-e301d7e69a94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).