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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS"
description: "Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 443"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 443 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/878e90dd-25a0-4334-bd6d-a64e164c8310"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "3405af311f39d254d90a55765b99cbab24c9b638f6971cc7c2e0d260316c5e83"
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 443 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS
Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **443** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0443.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **670** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/04/2025)
- **2025-03-04** 03/04/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** 03/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/13/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** 03/13/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/27/2025)
- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Placed on House Calendar (04/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 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/878e90dd-25a0-4334-bd6d-a64e164c8310`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).