---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES -- DRIVER PRIVILEGE CARDS AND PERMITS (Reduces the fee for an original driver privilege card from fifty dollars ($50.00) to twenty-five dollars ($25.00).)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES -- DRIVER PRIVILEGE CARDS AND PERMITS (Reduces the fee for an original driver privilege card from fifty dollars ($50.00) to twenty-five dollars ($25.00).)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 751"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 751 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dept. of Revenue", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Britto", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "DiPalma", "F. Lombardi", "Lawson", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-22"
last_action: "2023-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99b83d15-6f46-401d-aca3-6e1175cb737a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "bf07025b3759da08d12a464556b40422b959e848b49be6366b568684aaeda037"
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 751 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES -- DRIVER PRIVILEGE CARDS AND PERMITS (Reduces the fee for an original driver privilege card from fifty dollars ($50.00) to twenty-five dollars ($25.00).)

## Version chain

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

1. **751** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0751.pdf)

## Votes

- PERMITS — **32–5** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Britto — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- F. Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-22** 03/22/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** 03/24/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2023)
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-04-28** 04/28/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/03/2023)
- **2023-05-03** 05/03/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** 05/09/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Placed on House Calendar (05/16/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-23** 05/23/2023 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/99b83d15-6f46-401d-aca3-6e1175cb737a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).