---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- RHODE ISLAND ANTI-BID-RIGGING ACT"
description: "Establishes the Rhode Island Bid Rigging Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 945"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 945 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "DiPalma", "LaMountain", "Lauria", "Lawson", "McKenney", "Murray", "Raptakis", "Sosnowski", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f392215-48f2-447f-8b39-a0422704b746"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "38cbc9408756df1783ae87e286e9fa1d0433cde72bbd48db0b4dcaaa5c6cb589"
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 945 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- RHODE ISLAND ANTI-BID-RIGGING ACT

Establishes the Rhode Island Bid Rigging Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **945 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0945A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `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`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** 06/30/2025 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/8f392215-48f2-447f-8b39-a0422704b746`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).