---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - VIOLATIONS (Allows a person to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of motor vehicle fines or costs, and would permit a person to request an ability to pay hearing before a license is suspended for failure to pay such fines or costs.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - VIOLATIONS (Allows a person to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of motor vehicle fines or costs, and would permit a person to request an ability to pay hearing before a license is suspended for failure to pay such fines or costs.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 6254"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6254 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz", "Maldonado", "McKiernan", "Mendez", "Slater"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-06-25"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f45a851d-abf4-4cca-bc70-e40ed58c4114"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "093034ea8895988115fd6c72e2cc67392e4cb60ce8c7e58a22d46fcb34576755"
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 HB 6254 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - VIOLATIONS (Allows a person to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of motor vehicle fines or costs, and would permit a person to request an ability to pay hearing before a license is suspended for failure to pay such fines or costs.)

## Version chain

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

1. **6254** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H6254.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)
- Maldonado — primary (person)
- McKiernan — primary (person)
- Mendez — primary (person)
- Slater — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 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/f45a851d-abf4-4cca-bc70-e40ed58c4114`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).