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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATED TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS (Requires the department of transportation, along with the division of motor vehicles and the office of energy resources, to develop, no later than January 1, 2022, a plan for statewide electric vehicle charging station infrastructure.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATED TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS (Requires the department of transportation, along with the division of motor vehicles and the office of energy resources, to develop, no later than January 1, 2022, a plan for statewide electric vehicle charging station infrastructure.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 5031"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5031 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electricity", "Energy", "Environment", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Casimiro", "McNamara", "Noret"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-15"
last_action: "2021-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc57ffa1-8517-4743-8bd8-ec15a22aafd9"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "c83e4319431251df04ef73dca13a79804336a21e35efbd549e8441aa6cc3b1a1"
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 HB 5031 (2021) — AN ACT RELATED TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS (Requires the department of transportation, along with the division of motor vehicles and the office of energy resources, to develop, no later than January 1, 2022, a plan for statewide electric vehicle charging station infrastructure.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **5031** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/HouseText21/H5031.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **701** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Casimiro — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)
- Noret — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-15** 01/15/2021 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-29** 01/29/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2021)
- **2021-02-01** 02/01/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/30/2021)
- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 Placed on House Calendar (07/01/2021)
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 House read and passed `passage`
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (07/01/2021)
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2021-07-09** 07/09/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-07-13** 07/13/2021 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/fc57ffa1-8517-4743-8bd8-ec15a22aafd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).