---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT"
description: "Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1139"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1139 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-06"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c174672-3f17-4a68-9200-f211c5627289"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "0d656200625cdf8945c45305be06d4839bfe1fe046fb79763d62b50866fb5cc7"
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 1139 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT

Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27.

## Version chain

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

1. **1139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1139.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-07** 06/07/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/10/2025)
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 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`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 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/8c174672-3f17-4a68-9200-f211c5627289`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).