---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Provides for a judge emeritus license plate for the retired family court judge, Stephen J. Capineri.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Provides for a judge emeritus license plate for the retired family court judge, Stephen J. Capineri.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 965"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 965 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judges", "Licenses", "Motor Vehicles", "Plates (M.V.)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-06-17"
last_action: "2021-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c552903f-bb71-453e-a142-1f9ed70dfb8e"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "4af1bd22f5fdd75d64c8bf3db7276467fdd3f34ce87a26a9a3312ab8ccec0cf0"
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 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Provides for a judge emeritus license plate for the retired family court judge, Stephen J. Capineri.)

## 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/BillText21/SenateText21/S0965.pdf)

## Votes

- VEHICLES — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-17** 06/17/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-18** 06/18/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/23/2021)
- **2021-06-23** 06/23/2021 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** 06/23/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/24/2021)
- **2021-06-24** 06/24/2021 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/30/2021)
- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2021-07-07** 07/07/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-07-09** 07/09/2021 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/c552903f-bb71-453e-a142-1f9ed70dfb8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).