republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2485.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates a Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in RI, Inc. motor vehicle license plate.)	AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates a Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in RI, Inc. motor vehicle license plate.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	SB 2485	Rhode Island SB 2485 (2018)	bill	Motor Vehicles Plates (M.V.)	enacted	Ciccone DaPonte DiPalma Pearson Satchell	1	12	2	2018-02-15	2018-06-07	openstates	ocd-bill/194801dd-7269-48ea-b63d-845bc0009667	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	391fdb9fd7d09856dfd4d60f26bc61de8b0e1b74966c2c6c80aa7e4f6ce8db94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2485 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Creates a Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in RI, Inc. motor vehicle license plate.)

Version chain

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

1. 2485 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• IN CONCURRENCE — 73–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ciccone — primary (person)
• DaPonte — primary (person)
• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Pearson — primary (person)
• Satchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 02/15/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 02/22/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/28/2018)
• 2018-02-28 02/28/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2018-03-23 03/23/2018 Scheduled for consideration (03/28/2018)
• 2018-03-28 03/28/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-04 04/04/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (04/10/2018)
• 2018-04-10 04/10/2018 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2018-04-11 04/11/2018 Referred to House Finance referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 06/06/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2018)
• 2018-06-07 06/07/2018 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2018-06-07 06/07/2018 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-07 06/07/2018 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/194801dd-7269-48ea-b63d-845bc0009667. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).