republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-1004.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)	AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 1004	Rhode Island SB 1004 (2017)	bill	Holidays Veterans	enacted	DiPalma Felag Lynch Prata Raptakis Seveney	1	7	2	2017-06-29	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/95e4107b-e297-438c-9f38-e301d7e69a94	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	276239290ae4284e22f06020ff3cbb57f96ed37bfd631fab257680b17c83a0e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 1004 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE - DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Changes the recognition of Viet Nam Veterans' Day from May 15 to March 29 in order to correspond to the federal observance of this day.)

Version chain

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

1. 1004 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 35–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF — 69–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Felag — primary (person)
• Lynch Prata — primary (person)
• Raptakis — primary (person)
• Seveney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/30/2017)
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-09-21 09/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-09-27 09/27/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95e4107b-e297-438c-9f38-e301d7e69a94. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).