---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 7092"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7092 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Business & Professions", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Casey", "Messier", "Morin", "Newberry", "Phillips"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b1d390c-7d1d-4b2b-9181-60dd7e100bb4"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "5e266370a005d88e615c9bcbefae0458acceb927d0102287e6d7d89be0e4b1f0"
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 7092 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)

## Version chain

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

1. **7092** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H7092.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Casey — primary (person)
- Messier — primary (person)
- Morin — primary (person)
- Newberry — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** 01/10/2018 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-19** 04/19/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2018)
- **2018-04-25** 04/25/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2018)
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 House read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate voted to reconsider
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/9b1d390c-7d1d-4b2b-9181-60dd7e100bb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).