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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (Amends the revenue decoupling reconciliation mechanism used by a gas distribution company for the purposes of revenue decoupling to not require that distribution be determined on a revenue-per-customer basis.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (Amends the revenue decoupling reconciliation mechanism used by a gas distribution company for the purposes of revenue decoupling to not require that distribution be determined on a revenue-per-customer basis.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 704"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 704 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Division of Public Utilities & Carriers", "Electricity", "Gas", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-22"
last_action: "2023-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffe0c9d0-511b-4705-bb2b-491dd42def53"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "d1b5acbd31764b8028e3d8634211b019a7c7a4d9982eba0eefb3219018ce7133"
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 704 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (Amends the revenue decoupling reconciliation mechanism used by a gas distribution company for the purposes of revenue decoupling to not require that distribution be determined on a revenue-per-customer basis.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **704** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0704.pdf)
## Votes
- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION — **370** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **710** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-22** 03/22/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** 03/24/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2023)
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-04-21** 04/21/2023 Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2023)
- **2023-04-26** 04/26/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** 04/27/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/04/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-02** 06/02/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2023)
- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/08/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 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/ffe0c9d0-511b-4705-bb2b-491dd42def53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).