republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-356.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 MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates the Ocean State Animal Coalition motor vehicle plate to help raise revenue and subsidize spay and neuter services for cats and dogs.)	AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates the Ocean State Animal Coalition motor vehicle plate to help raise revenue and subsidize spay and neuter services for cats and dogs.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 356	Rhode Island SB 356 (2017)	bill	Animals Plates (M.V.) Motor Vehicles	enacted	Goodwin Miller Pearson Ruggerio Sosnowski	1	11	2	2017-02-16	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/210f7131-37ba-44da-a5c1-cbc702d1e1c0	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	c9b1de616cb4b3bbe4846613862ef05ac2c41c503b6aa12678405260802c7c79	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 356 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates the Ocean State Animal Coalition motor vehicle plate to help raise revenue and subsidize spay and neuter services for cats and dogs.)

Version chain

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

1. 356 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHI — 63–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)
• Pearson — primary (person)
• Ruggerio — primary (person)
• Sosnowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 02/16/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-02-23 02/23/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2017)
• 2017-03-01 03/01/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/30/2017)
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-09-14 09/14/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-10-03 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-10-05 10/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/210f7131-37ba-44da-a5c1-cbc702d1e1c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).