---
type: "Bill"
title: "JOINT RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A STATEWIDE MAIN STREET COORDINATING PROGRAM"
description: "Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $500,000 for the formal establishment of “Main Street Rhode Island”."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HR 5477"
citation: "Rhode Island HR 5477 (2025)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Cortvriend", "Cruz", "Fogarty", "Handy", "Kazarian", "Kislak", "McEntee", "Paplauskas", "Stewart"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/502cab29-b56a-4a51-996e-8baab175952e"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "2b041204944e516b92449ac2d0c3bdac735d10d6a88bbf55e1974dcd12dd0c75"
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 HR 5477 (2025) — JOINT RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A STATEWIDE MAIN STREET COORDINATING PROGRAM

Authorizes the appropriation of the sum of $500,000 for the formal establishment of “Main Street Rhode Island”.

## Version chain

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

1. **5477 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5477aa.pdf)

## Votes

- AS AMENDED — **50–9** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **50–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Cortvriend — primary (person)
- Cruz — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- Handy — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)
- Kislak — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Paplauskas — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** 02/12/2025 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/06/2025)
- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-03** 07/03/2025 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/502cab29-b56a-4a51-996e-8baab175952e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).