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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Renames the College of Pharmacy building on Greenhouse Road at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, as \"Paramaz Avedisian '54 Hall.\")"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Renames the College of Pharmacy building on Greenhouse Road at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, as \"Paramaz Avedisian '54 Hall.\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 905"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 905 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bridges", "State Affairs", "General Assembly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Conley", "Lombardo", "Ruggerio", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-11"
last_action: "2017-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c46a56ae-b0eb-4e25-87e2-5e7695cae6b4"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "5b021251dd8fc801876373792a1628b46b0fbc4284649f3288dc636ccb930851"
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 905 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Renames the College of Pharmacy building on Greenhouse Road at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, as "Paramaz Avedisian '54 Hall.")
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **905 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0905A.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **700** (pass) · legislature
- THE "PARAMAZ AVEDISIAN '54 HALL" — **340** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Algiere — primary (person)
- Conley — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-05-11** 05/11/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-05-12** 05/12/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/17/2017)
- **2017-05-17** 05/17/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-18** 05/18/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2017)
- **2017-05-24** 05/24/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-05-25** 05/25/2017 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 Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 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/c46a56ae-b0eb-4e25-87e2-5e7695cae6b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).