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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CREATING THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (Creates a 25 member RI commission for national community service in the department of education to work with a nonprofit corporation of the same name created in 1994 to prepare and implement a 3 yr. community service plan.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO CREATING THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (Creates a 25 member RI commission for national community service in the department of education to work with a nonprofit corporation of the same name created in 1994 to prepare and implement a 3 yr. community service plan.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 979"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 979 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-21"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11d7973d-5852-4933-a440-d03f913b78c1"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "f3e1673c640fc6bceb45d44420bf01defd829002aeb13763337c76c670046f0b"
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 979 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO CREATING THE RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (Creates a 25 member RI commission for national community service in the department of education to work with a nonprofit corporation of the same name created in 1994 to prepare and implement a 3 yr. community service plan.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **979** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0979.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **350** (pass) · legislature
- IN CONCURRENCE — **640** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Gallo — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-06-23** 06/23/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2017)
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/29/2017)
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/30/2017)
- **2017-09-15** 09/15/2017 Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11d7973d-5852-4933-a440-d03f913b78c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).