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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2026 HB 7332 Rhode Island HB 7332 (2026)
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Rhode Island HB 7332 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- DUTIES OF UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

Requires all public utilities to maintain a customer service facility within the state to perform services such as addressing customer inquiries and accepting bill payments.

Version chain

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

  1. 7332 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 680 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Alzate — primary (person)
  • Azzinaro — primary (person)
  • Bennett — primary (person)
  • DeSimone — primary (person)
  • Felix — primary (person)
  • Fogarty — primary (person)
  • Hull — primary (person)
  • Lombardi — primary (person)
  • Slater — primary (person)
  • Tanzi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-28 01/28/2026 Introduced, referred to House Corporations introduction, referral-committee
  • 2026-04-03 04/03/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/07/2026)
  • 2026-04-07 04/07/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2026-05-15 05/15/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/21/2026)
  • 2026-05-21 05/21/2026 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-05-22 05/22/2026 Placed on House Calendar (05/26/2026) reading-3
  • 2026-05-26 05/26/2026 House read and passed passage
  • 2026-06-05 06/05/2026 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/09/2026) reading-3
  • 2026-06-09 06/09/2026 Senate passed in concurrence passage
  • 2026-06-16 06/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2026-06-24 06/24/2026 Effective without Governor's signature became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/371190ec-7df7-4926-8918-cf820bc4dbae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).