---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS"
description: "Names the Senate Chamber after the former Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1147"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1147 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Felag", "Lawson", "Patalano", "Quezada", "Thompson", "Tikoian", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-10"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/007e9470-cd81-4158-a843-539d6ed2a5f0"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "880dc36db907972794fa233ae8b6cc335453dbca7370fde7f3f1c9ff177f8e6f"
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 1147 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS

Names the Senate Chamber after the former Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio.

## Version chain

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

1. **1147** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1147.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Scheduled for consideration
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Meeting postponed (06/12/2025)
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/17/2025)
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/007e9470-cd81-4158-a843-539d6ed2a5f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).