republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-98.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - SECURITIZATION ACT (Repeals The Public Utility Securitization Act (§§39-1-43 to 60), passed in 1997.)	AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - SECURITIZATION ACT (Repeals The Public Utility Securitization Act (§§39-1-43 to 60), passed in 1997.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 98	Rhode Island SB 98 (2017)	bill	Public Utilities	enacted	Conley Coyne Gee Jabour Lombardi	1	14	2	2017-02-01	2017-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/0e2c2323-aca3-4412-976d-60ba04cf24c1	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	d8b91f0265a3746755a5349ef57fad1b3be95e8680c5c8969ae715607a11cc8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 98 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - SECURITIZATION ACT (Repeals The Public Utility Securitization Act (§§39-1-43 to 60), passed in 1997.)

Version chain

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

1. 98 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 37–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 72–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Conley — primary (person)
• Coyne — primary (person)
• Gee — primary (person)
• Jabour — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-01 02/01/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-17 03/17/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2017)
• 2017-03-21 03/21/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-04-21 04/21/2017 Scheduled for consideration (04/25/2017)
• 2017-04-25 04/25/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-26 04/26/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/02/2017)
• 2017-05-02 05/02/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-05-03 05/03/2017 Referred to House Corporations referral-committee
• 2017-05-12 05/12/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/16/2017)
• 2017-05-16 05/16/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-09 06/09/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2017)
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-19 06/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e2c2323-aca3-4412-976d-60ba04cf24c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).