---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- NEW SHOREHAM"
description: "Provides that municipal water supply entities, including New Shoreham, be required to provide water service to only its designated service areas."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 712"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 712 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Euer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-07"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c094f9d4-b091-4e52-93f7-52c6c73dcd63"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a944f4c7282a4da746074dcfeb54ebe8614cbd447e109c0ef400de47cb6684e2"
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 712 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- NEW SHOREHAM

Provides that municipal water supply entities, including New Shoreham, be required to provide water service to only its designated service areas.

## Version chain

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

1. **712 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0712Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- AS AMENDED — **73–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/08/2025)
- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `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 passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/c094f9d4-b091-4e52-93f7-52c6c73dcd63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).