---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Amends laws regarding the aggregation of electrical loads by a municipality, and requires at least one public hearing be held, for review by its residents, prior to adopting any plan, to be approved by the public utilities commission.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Amends laws regarding the aggregation of electrical loads by a municipality, and requires at least one public hearing be held, for review by its residents, prior to adopting any plan, to be approved by the public utilities commission.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 877"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 877 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Utilities", "Electricity"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "Lynch Prata"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-11"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7ad2c32-b7db-4c0d-a9f1-c8865eae453f"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "e334e0e8df525be5d178989451b89b4568d9ca5aec86a1002a8bd8e41a4dd6ac"
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 877 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - REGULATORY POWERS OF ADMINISTRATION (Amends laws regarding the aggregation of electrical loads by a municipality, and requires at least one public hearing be held, for review by its residents, prior to adopting any plan, to be approved by the public utilities commission.)

## Version chain

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

1. **877 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0877A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–3** (pass) · legislature
- RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND — **59–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-11** 05/11/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-05-12** 05/12/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/18/2017)
- **2017-05-18** 05/18/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-26** 06/26/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/28/2017)
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-14** 09/14/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-10-03** 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-10-05** 10/05/2017 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/a7ad2c32-b7db-4c0d-a9f1-c8865eae453f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).