---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Names the URI College of Engineering Building as the \"Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.\")"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Names the URI College of Engineering Building as the \"Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 872"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 872 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["General Assembly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Ciccone", "Ruggerio", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-09"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ecabf66-441f-49e8-ab76-8cd3bc2297cf"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "a7df6bacefef6a1d347e654021792ff55f4af8afdf25cca567291a9767704013"
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 872 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Names the URI College of Engineering Building as the "Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.")

## Version chain

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

1. **872** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0872.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **73–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Algiere — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-09** 05/09/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-10** 05/10/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/15/2019)
- **2019-05-15** 05/15/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2019)
- **2019-05-29** 05/29/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-30** 05/30/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2019)
- **2019-06-06** 06/06/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2019)
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/24/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-03** 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-08** 07/08/2019 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/0ecabf66-441f-49e8-ab76-8cd3bc2297cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).