---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NONREGULATED POWER PRODUCER CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS (Excludes municipal and government bodies that aggregate electrical loads for residential retail customers from the requirement that a new contract is required when there is a change of terms for electric-generation services.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NONREGULATED POWER PRODUCER CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS (Excludes municipal and government bodies that aggregate electrical loads for residential retail customers from the requirement that a new contract is required when there is a change of terms for electric-generation services.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 6431"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6431 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Consumer Affairs", "Electricity", "Energy", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cardillo", "Casey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-06-16"
last_action: "2021-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6088eda1-4eb6-461c-a7f4-9a5004a8585a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "4f0d559ed2dbb307d236340e43c391a6cc8dfba9de26c9ebd185f36dad4b991e"
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 6431 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NONREGULATED POWER PRODUCER CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS (Excludes municipal and government bodies that aggregate electrical loads for residential retail customers from the requirement that a new contract is required when there is a change of terms for electric-generation services.)

## Version chain

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

1. **6431** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/HouseText21/H6431.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **63–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cardillo — primary (person)
- Casey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** 06/16/2021 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-19** 06/19/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2021-06-20** 06/20/2021 Meeting postponed (06/22/2021)
- **2021-06-20** 06/20/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/23/2021)
- **2021-06-23** 06/23/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2021)
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Placed on House Calendar (06/29/2021)
- **2021-06-29** 06/29/2021 House read and passed `passage`
- **2021-06-29** 06/29/2021 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (07/01/2021)
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2021-07-08** 07/08/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-07-13** 07/13/2021 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/6088eda1-4eb6-461c-a7f4-9a5004a8585a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).