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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES & CARRIERS - RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes RIPTA to provide an open-door service to all passengers to and from Rhode Island to locations within five (5) miles of the Rhode Island boarder into Massachusetts and Connecticut.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES & CARRIERS - RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes RIPTA to provide an open-door service to all passengers to and from Rhode Island to locations within five (5) miles of the Rhode Island boarder into Massachusetts and Connecticut.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 790"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 790 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Utilities", "Buses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Nesselbush", "Quezada", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-25"
last_action: "2017-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a89a04c-7bb5-4035-8c2d-dea8bd242846"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "2e5dc7077bb5da82eaa398a7dd9bb36b685c41e1b746443e67d7325d72330707"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---
# Rhode Island SB 790 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES & CARRIERS - RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes RIPTA to provide an open-door service to all passengers to and from Rhode Island to locations within five (5) miles of the Rhode Island boarder into Massachusetts and Connecticut.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **790** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0790.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **700** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **340** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Crowley — primary (person)
- Nesselbush — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-04-25** 04/25/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-04-28** 04/28/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/03/2017)
- **2017-05-03** 05/03/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2017)
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a89a04c-7bb5-4035-8c2d-dea8bd242846`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).