---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES"
description: "Empowers the division of motor vehicles to make available special motor vehicle registration plates for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 155"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 155 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Bissaillon", "Dimitri", "Euer", "Gallo", "Raptakis", "Thompson", "Tikoian", "Urso", "Zurier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c49dd478-cb13-4ab6-ae0a-8995b368aacc"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f1eb1e5ad352344e681b7638ca276122afe0d84231e351075c04e201a8ff4c8c"
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 155 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES

Empowers the division of motor vehicles to make available special motor vehicle registration plates for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association.

## Version chain

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

1. **155** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0155.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **75–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appollonio — primary (person)
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)
- Zurier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-02-24** 02/24/2025 Meeting postponed (02/26/2025)
- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2025)
- **2025-03-05** 03/05/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (03/19/2025)
- **2025-03-19** 03/19/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** 03/20/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/25/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-03-26** 03/26/2025 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-25** 05/25/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/27/2025)
- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 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/c49dd478-cb13-4ab6-ae0a-8995b368aacc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).