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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 5727"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5727 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Firearms", "Open Records", "Public Records", "State Affairs", "State Departments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C Lima", "Casey", "Chippendale", "Corvese", "Craven", "Filippi", "Hawkins", "Kennedy", "Phillips", "Solomon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-24"
last_action: "2021-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37e7cbf9-36e8-4da9-98b1-0d2f7a2752b2"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "d80f88e11f8f6dcace40f7d7f8220f49fe7917d68a4539d2d8c0a0980616c05b"
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 5727 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL (Requires the office of the attorney general to issue a report containing the total cases charged with a firearm in all Rhode Island courts and a list of cases charged with a firearm which have been disposed during the calendar year.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **5727 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/HouseText21/H5727A.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **664** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- C Lima — primary (person)
- Casey — primary (person)
- Chippendale — primary (person)
- Corvese — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Filippi — primary (person)
- Hawkins — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-24** 02/24/2021 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** 03/15/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2021)
- **2021-03-19** 03/19/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2021)
- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Proposed Substitute
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Placed on House Calendar (06/30/2021)
- **2021-06-30** 06/30/2021 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (07/01/2021)
- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2021-07-06** 07/06/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-07-14** 07/14/2021 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37e7cbf9-36e8-4da9-98b1-0d2f7a2752b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).