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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CONTRACTORS' BONDS (Requires road and bridge contractors for the department of transportation to furnish a bond equal to at least 50% of the contract price on contracts in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CONTRACTORS' BONDS (Requires road and bridge contractors for the department of transportation to furnish a bond equal to at least 50% of the contract price on contracts in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 585"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 585 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bridges", "Dept. of Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conley", "Felag", "Lawson", "Lombardi", "Lombardo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59a4d4f7-49c0-460c-ad81-cdd0d64cb340"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "080fcd1bd9ce7e7e30b4eae30623e9bf5c4984368387c3fa608e7ed8a9969fb6"
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 585 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CONTRACTORS' BONDS (Requires road and bridge contractors for the department of transportation to furnish a bond equal to at least 50% of the contract price on contracts in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **585** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0585.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **360** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **720** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Conley — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-14** 03/14/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** 03/29/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/04/2019)
- **2019-04-04** 04/04/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-04-19** 04/19/2019 Scheduled for consideration (04/25/2019)
- **2019-04-25** 04/25/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** 04/30/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/02/2019)
- **2019-05-02** 05/02/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-05-03** 05/03/2019 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Committee transferred to House Finance
- **2019-06-15** 06/15/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2019)
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 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/59a4d4f7-49c0-460c-ad81-cdd0d64cb340`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).