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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2025 HB 5580 Rhode Island HB 5580 (2025)
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Rhode Island HB 5580 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING

Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer.

Version chain

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

  1. 5580 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 720 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Boylan — primary (person)
  • Cortvriend — primary (person)
  • Cotter — primary (person)
  • Edwards — primary (person)
  • Handy — primary (person)
  • Knight — primary (person)
  • McGaw — primary (person)
  • Potter — primary (person)
  • Solomon — primary (person)
  • Speakman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-26 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Corporations introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-03-28 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2025-03-31 03/31/2025 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/01/2025)
  • 2025-04-18 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/24/2025)
  • 2025-04-24 04/24/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2025-06-06 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
  • 2025-06-10 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-06-13 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-16 06/16/2025 House read and passed passage
  • 2025-06-20 06/20/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-20 06/20/2025 Senate passed in concurrence passage
  • 2025-06-23 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-27 06/27/2025 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd7cfec5-a9a9-4adc-bc45-8a75a276b1e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).