---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY (Modifies Warwick Sewer Authority Act by expanding number of members; increasing number of votes for bylaw changes; providing for as many as thirty year installment payments; relieves owners with functioning septic systems from assessments for 20 years.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY (Modifies Warwick Sewer Authority Act by expanding number of members; increasing number of votes for bylaw changes; providing for as many as thirty year installment payments; relieves owners with functioning septic systems from assessments for 20 years.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 965"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 965 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "McKenney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-11"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c38844e5-f607-4ece-a508-3f094ffcd9aa"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "4dcd5397f802f8b65a2c948c62109a915dbc3c9c1250c321ab825b166a5683ae"
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 965 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO THE CITY OF WARWICK -- SEWER AUTHORITY (Modifies Warwick Sewer Authority Act by expanding number of members; increasing number of votes for bylaw changes; providing for as many as thirty year installment payments; relieves owners with functioning septic systems from assessments for 20 years.)

## Version chain

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

1. **965** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0965.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** 06/11/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/19/2019)
- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/25/2019)
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-19** 07/19/2019 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/c38844e5-f607-4ece-a508-3f094ffcd9aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).