---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 119 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Firearms", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "E Morgan", "F Lombardi", "Lombardo", "Paolino", "Rogers", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ebda0e2-adfd-4f99-ba19-c067b1ea59f7"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "32191d8d7aa5dad923a21ad4d33a5552bd7171193cbbcf7a46d51d4fd3129587"
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 119 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)

## Version chain

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

1. **119 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/SenateText21/S0119A.pdf)

## Votes

- ATTORNEY GENERAL — **30–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- E Morgan — primary (person)
- F Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- Paolino — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26** 01/26/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** 04/08/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2021)
- **2021-04-12** 04/12/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2021)
- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Proposed Substitute
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/30/2021)
- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (07/01/2021)
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2021-07-06** 07/06/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-07-14** 07/14/2021 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/1ebda0e2-adfd-4f99-ba19-c067b1ea59f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).