---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES -- CASEY'S LAW"
description: "Creates an enhanced penalty defined as \"road rage\" to be applied in addition to penalties for convictions of certain motor vehicle offenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3169"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3169 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "LaMountain", "McKenney", "Patalano", "Raptakis", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-03-27"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/108ac3bd-0496-485b-b65c-cb3dc717bcbb"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "91fc97c77babf0a82d4a0492c2b079b10358b38d23ea983c0418e55b72db125b"
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 3169 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES -- CASEY'S LAW

Creates an enhanced penalty defined as "road rage" to be applied in addition to penalties for convictions of certain motor vehicle offenses.

## Version chain

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

1. **3169 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S3169Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- AS AMENDED — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-27** 03/27/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-03** 04/03/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/09/2026)
- **2026-04-09** 04/09/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2026-05-30** 05/30/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2026)
- **2026-06-01** 06/01/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-04** 06/04/2026 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2026-06-18** 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-22** 06/22/2026 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/108ac3bd-0496-485b-b65c-cb3dc717bcbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).