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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2025 SB 981 Rhode Island SB 981 (2025)
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Rhode Island SB 981 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- ENERGY FACILITY SITING ACT

Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence.

Version chain

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

  1. 981 SUB A as amended (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage as Amended — 295 (pass) · upper
  • Passage as Amended — 305 (pass) · upper
  • Approval of Amendment — 295 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Britto — primary (person)
  • Zurier — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-04-16 04/16/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-04-18 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2025-04-21 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
  • 2025-04-29 04/29/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2025-05-01 05/01/2025 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (05/01/2025)
  • 2025-05-05 05/05/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/08/2025)
  • 2025-05-08 05/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2025-05-30 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
  • 2025-05-30 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute substitution
  • 2025-06-02 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-06-02 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-04 06/04/2025 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) passage
  • 2025-06-05 06/05/2025 Senate voted to reconsider
  • 2025-06-05 06/05/2025 Senate passed Sub A as amended passage
  • 2025-06-13 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-18 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence passage
  • 2025-06-18 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-26 06/26/2025 Effective without Governor's signature became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f31d79de-6171-4f60-bd99-ccb6b68b0d65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).