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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 -- NEW RHODE ISLAND VETERANS HOME CONFERENCE ROOM (Provides that one of the two (2) conference rooms in the new Rhode Island Veterans Home shall be named and known as the \"1st Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna US Army 7th Special Forces Group Memorial Conference Room.\")"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS -- NEW RHODE ISLAND VETERANS HOME CONFERENCE ROOM (Provides that one of the two (2) conference rooms in the new Rhode Island Veterans Home shall be named and known as the \"1st Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna US Army 7th Special Forces Group Memorial Conference Room.\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 984"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 984 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bridges", "Veterans", "General Assembly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coyne", "Felag", "Lynch Prata", "Raptakis", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-21"
last_action: "2017-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e95e349-eab7-41c3-85b6-09d2530455cd"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "a7fa495c4a6faa38e7f84a3ffb95f5273633de94709aa166f01ab893873b9039"
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 984 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS -- NEW RHODE ISLAND VETERANS HOME CONFERENCE ROOM (Provides that one of the two (2) conference rooms in the new Rhode Island Veterans Home shall be named and known as the "1st Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna US Army 7th Special Forces Group Memorial Conference Room.")
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **984** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0984.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **350** (pass) · legislature
- IN CONCURRENCE — **680** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Coyne — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Seveney — 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 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/29/2017)
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 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/2e95e349-eab7-41c3-85b6-09d2530455cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).