---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT (Authorizes town of West Greenwich to provide, by ordinance, regulations controlling the use of personal watercraft on any/or all fresh/inland waters of the town; ordinances may include a ban or limitation of personal watercraft on any waters in the town.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT (Authorizes town of West Greenwich to provide, by ordinance, regulations controlling the use of personal watercraft on any/or all fresh/inland waters of the town; ordinances may include a ban or limitation of personal watercraft on any waters in the town.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 963"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 963 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boats", "Health & Safety", "Waters and Navigation", "West Greenwich"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "E Morgan", "Raptakis", "Rogers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-06-17"
last_action: "2021-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a8c4d45-f437-46e2-8161-e4af600a6bed"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "ab5946ef596cb856dacf0d0c14060c28f433b36007203bf36c036d07bbdd941f"
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 963 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- PERSONAL WATERCRAFT SAFETY ACT (Authorizes town of West Greenwich to provide, by ordinance, regulations controlling the use of personal watercraft on any/or all fresh/inland waters of the town; ordinances may include a ban or limitation of personal watercraft on any waters in the town.)

## Version chain

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

1. **963** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/SenateText21/S0963.pdf)

## Votes

- ACT — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- E Morgan — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-17** 06/17/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-18** 06/18/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2021)
- **2021-06-21** 06/21/2021 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** 06/22/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/24/2021)
- **2021-06-24** 06/24/2021 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (07/01/2021)
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 House passed 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/0a8c4d45-f437-46e2-8161-e4af600a6bed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).