---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT"
description: "Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5687"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5687 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boylan", "Dawson", "Furtado", "Kazarian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a129020-cb43-4d25-98eb-2cad5e1870d7"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "6c5c192bba90f1eff37ef86cad745758d62b3b73e773f663406deb7f83ff9240"
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 5687 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT

Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence.

## Version chain

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

1. **5687 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5687A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **52–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boylan — primary (person)
- Dawson — primary (person)
- Furtado — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/22/2025)
- **2025-05-16** 05/16/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/20/2025)
- **2025-05-20** 05/20/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a129020-cb43-4d25-98eb-2cad5e1870d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).