---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION"
description: "Requires payments by the corporation increase from a $3.00 tipping fee per vehicle to a $6.00 tipping fee per vehicle, unless exempt. This act would also require fees be paid to Johnston on an annual rather than a biannual basis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1050"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1050 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "Thompson", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-09"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0875d8e-159a-4a79-ac5f-d8ce8c5f34b7"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "75a6f06e45fca7c0194aae52f1aca8f40f01f24d897f56917f0ce4e1a2801ca5"
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 1050 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION

Requires payments by the corporation increase from a $3.00 tipping fee per vehicle to a $6.00 tipping fee per vehicle, unless exempt. This act would also require fees be paid to Johnston on an annual rather than a biannual basis.

## Version chain

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

1. **1050** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1050.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-16** 05/16/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/22/2025)
- **2025-05-22** 05/22/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `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 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/f0875d8e-159a-4a79-ac5f-d8ce8c5f34b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).