republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-115.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	SB 115	Rhode Island SB 115 (2017)	bill	Seniors Public Utilities Handicapped Buses	enacted	Crowley Goodwin Jabour Metts Quezada	1	17	2	2017-02-01	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/49da3386-9316-445d-bbdb-9b73b347f298	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	6d851dc8e0c137602ee87f4e68f3d7ef7703b293a454c62fbb8c2cad09ed5006	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 115 (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. 115 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 35–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND — 69–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Crowley — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Jabour — primary (person)
• Metts — primary (person)
• Quezada — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-01 02/01/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-28 04/28/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/02/2017)
• 2017-05-02 05/02/2017 Committee heard
• 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2017)
• 2017-06-22 06/22/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-23 06/23/2017 Referred to House Finance referral-committee
• 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
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A passage
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-09-26 09/26/2017 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/49da3386-9316-445d-bbdb-9b73b347f298. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).