---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES"
description: "Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 74 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Britto", "Kallman", "Murray", "Pearson", "Thompson", "Urso"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a840af0-83d9-47fd-9675-67512ff3736c"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a695ba38348d20a206d04b236f9947507bb27f5c210b4fcba776ac292f5e2bc9"
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 74 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES

Creates a special license plate for the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc. that would support the Blackstone River Valley Environmental Clean-up and Education Fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **74 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0074A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Britto — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** 01/23/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-02-24** 02/24/2025 Meeting postponed (02/26/2025)
- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2025)
- **2025-03-05** 03/05/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/23/2025)
- **2025-04-25** 04/25/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 04/29/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-04-30** 04/30/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/06/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-05-07** 05/07/2025 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/9a840af0-83d9-47fd-9675-67512ff3736c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).