---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LICENSING"
description: "Authorizes the taking of green crabs and provides for a commercial green crab license subject to a license fee of ten dollars ($10.00)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 938"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 938 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiMario", "McKenney", "Murray", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f300c9fd-3695-451c-8bfb-f8d955653814"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a81bb47985c3a88e1168722b65e3e10e82717913047b2ec0a6379aa412a43b2b"
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 938 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- LICENSING

Authorizes the taking of green crabs and provides for a commercial green crab license subject to a license fee of ten dollars ($10.00).

## Version chain

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

1. **938 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0938A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/07/2025)
- **2025-05-07** 05/07/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/28/2025)
- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-05-28** 05/28/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/03/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/f300c9fd-3695-451c-8bfb-f8d955653814`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).