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| Bill | AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES | Restores law enforcement discretion, allowing officers to issue a verbal warning when appropriate or pursue misdemeanor or felony charges in more egregious cases where a child is left unattended in a motor vehicle. | us/states/ri | Rhode Island General Assembly | 2026 | SB 3135 | Rhode Island SB 3135 (2026) |
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Rhode Island SB 3135 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- MISCELLANEOUS RULES
Restores law enforcement discretion, allowing officers to issue a verbal warning when appropriate or pursue misdemeanor or felony charges in more egregious cases where a child is left unattended in a motor vehicle.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 3135 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passage — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — 69–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Burke — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-03-20 03/20/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
introduction, referral-committee - 2026-04-03 04/03/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/09/2026)
- 2026-04-09 04/09/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
committee-failure - 2026-05-30 05/30/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2026)
- 2026-06-02 06/02/2026 Committee recommends passage
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-06-02 06/02/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2026)
reading-3 - 2026-06-04 06/04/2026 Senate read and passed
passage - 2026-06-05 06/05/2026 Referred to House Judiciary
referral-committee - 2026-06-06 06/06/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2026)
- 2026-06-08 06/08/2026 Committee recommends passage in concurrence
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-06-08 06/08/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2026)
reading-3 - 2026-06-10 06/10/2026 House passed in concurrence
passage - 2026-06-18 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-06-23 06/23/2026 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97387110-b4f8-48b1-a8e6-d8da5bb3ac09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).