---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- POLICE CHIEF EMERITUS GARY MALIKOWSKI (Authorizes a police chief emeritus special license plate for Gary Malikowski, former police chief of West Greenwich.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- POLICE CHIEF EMERITUS GARY MALIKOWSKI (Authorizes a police chief emeritus special license plate for Gary Malikowski, former police chief of West Greenwich.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2872"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2872 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Plates (M.V.)", "Police & Fire", "West Greenwich"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morgan", "Raptakis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-05-03"
last_action: "2018-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b49fcc6d-b81f-45dd-b888-87da8f0acb09"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "75c331eab84b997afa0f655fe645dda6157e1f646864811fda413e1bd0e2fba2"
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 2872 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES -- POLICE CHIEF EMERITUS GARY MALIKOWSKI (Authorizes a police chief emeritus special license plate for Gary Malikowski, former police chief of West Greenwich.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2872 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2872A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Morgan — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-03** 05/03/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-18** 05/18/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/23/2018)
- **2018-05-23** 05/23/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-01** 06/01/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2018)
- **2018-06-06** 06/06/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-10** 07/10/2018 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b49fcc6d-b81f-45dd-b888-87da8f0acb09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).