republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/hb-5241.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC TRANSIT-- BUS PASSES (Requires that five million dollars ($5,000,000) be appropriated to the Rhode Island public transit authority between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2019.)	AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC TRANSIT-- BUS PASSES (Requires that five million dollars ($5,000,000) be appropriated to the Rhode Island public transit authority between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2019.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	HB 5241	Rhode Island HB 5241 (2017)	bill	Fees Seniors Public Utilities Handicapped Buses	enacted	Carson Morin O'Brien Ruggiero Slater	1	11	1	2017-01-26	2017-07-05	openstates	ocd-bill/70a16832-cdf1-4ee1-896a-ea37dc0ecb63	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	b3c78fc32b22199aa03fe29d16d2d7926e9f421feb2f5861ce6404f10197201c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 5241 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC TRANSIT-- BUS PASSES (Requires that five million dollars ($5,000,000) be appropriated to the Rhode Island public transit authority between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2019.)

Version chain

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

1. 5241 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 72–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Carson — primary (person)
• Morin — primary (person)
• O'Brien — primary (person)
• Ruggiero — primary (person)
• Slater — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-26 01/26/2017 Introduced, referred to House Finance referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-05-05 05/05/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2017)
• 2017-05-09 05/09/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 House passed Sub A passage
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/30/2017)
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-05 07/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70a16832-cdf1-4ee1-896a-ea37dc0ecb63. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).