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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES"
description: "Adds \"providing for residential development in all or some of the areas encompassing commercial districts\" as a purpose a zoning ordinance must address."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1090"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1090 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-23"
last_action: "2025-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e26a5dd-52f5-467a-9682-cb32a021542b"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "14e7573dea991faf88643457ad0552548ff3a07aa5271012ead8444c89bb957d"
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 1090 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES
Adds "providing for residential development in all or some of the areas encompassing commercial districts" as a purpose a zoning ordinance must address.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **1090 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S1090A.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **509** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **2510** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/29/2025)
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 House passed Sub A 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e26a5dd-52f5-467a-9682-cb32a021542b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).