---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RIGHT TO CONSUMER ACCESS TO POWERED WHEELCHAIR REPAIRS"
description: "Provides that original power wheelchair equipment manufacturers would be required to provide to independent service providers repair information and tools to maintain and repair original power wheelchair equipment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 884"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 884 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiPalma", "LaMountain", "Lawson", "McKenney", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-27"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5e2f656-7c5e-4f44-a97e-ed01605d3aeb"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "18e30f0858d0775d0776b95dd0698f99bcd971ca10afeb091ec2c991b41582e1"
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 884 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- RIGHT TO CONSUMER ACCESS TO POWERED WHEELCHAIR REPAIRS

Provides that original power wheelchair equipment manufacturers would be required to provide to independent service providers repair information and tools to maintain and repair original power wheelchair equipment.

## Version chain

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

1. **884** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0884.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/13/2025)
- **2025-05-13** 05/13/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed 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/a5e2f656-7c5e-4f44-a97e-ed01605d3aeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).