republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-538.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 (Adds the class of combination vehicles to the list of vehicles eligible for New England Patriots Charitable Foundation registration plates.)	AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Adds the class of combination vehicles to the list of vehicles eligible for New England Patriots Charitable Foundation registration plates.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 538	Rhode Island SB 538 (2017)	bill	Plates (M.V.) Motor Vehicles	enacted	DiPalma Goodwin Lombardo Pearson Seveney	1	14	2	2017-03-09	2017-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/1c46564f-efd9-4730-bd49-91a97e899380	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	cf6866b6f8372202ea31128e282895ab63987f38da0bb4a939cbf28c54d73ec9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 538 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Adds the class of combination vehicles to the list of vehicles eligible for New England Patriots Charitable Foundation registration plates.)

Version chain

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

1. 538 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 36–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 68–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Lombardo — primary (person)
• Pearson — primary (person)
• Seveney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-09 03/09/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-31 03/31/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2017)
• 2017-04-05 04/05/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-05-05 05/05/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/10/2017)
• 2017-05-10 05/10/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-11 05/11/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2017)
• 2017-05-17 05/17/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2017-05-18 05/18/2017 Referred to House Finance referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2017)
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-07-18 07/18/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-19 07/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c46564f-efd9-4730-bd49-91a97e899380. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).