---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 512"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 512 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Police & Fire", "Municipal Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Felag", "Lombardi", "Lombardo", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-02"
last_action: "2017-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c50c7da-2e73-4777-af79-ffec25d493fd"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "51e271b1c37c101aae9a3feb1915dd6bc7aa5f15eeac1334263cb4d6727f9077"
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 512 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)

## Version chain

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

1. **512** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0512.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Felag — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-02** 03/02/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-03-31** 03/31/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2017)
- **2017-04-05** 04/05/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2017)
- **2017-06-13** 06/13/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 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/0c50c7da-2e73-4777-af79-ffec25d493fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).