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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.) AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.) us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2017 HB 5351 Rhode Island HB 5351 (2017)
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Rhode Island HB 5351 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS RESIDENCY (Prohibits municipal charters and ordinances from requiring that their police officers and firefighters reside within the state of Rhode Island.)

Version chain

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

  1. 5351 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 6010 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Bennett — primary (person)
  • Canario — primary (person)
  • Marshall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-02 02/02/2017 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government referral-committee, introduction
  • 2017-02-24 02/24/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2017)
  • 2017-03-02 03/02/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2017-03-10 03/10/2017 Scheduled for consideration (03/16/2017)
  • 2017-03-16 03/16/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-17 03/17/2017 Placed on House Calendar (03/23/2017)
  • 2017-03-23 03/23/2017 House read and passed passage
  • 2017-05-30 05/30/2017 Referred to Senate Labor referral-committee
  • 2017-06-09 06/09/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/14/2017)
  • 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-06-22 06/22/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/28/2017)
  • 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Senate passed in concurrence passage
  • 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 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/8409ae7f-3ae7-43e1-b734-cfa6157caf18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).