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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING (Defines core forest and preferred sites and provides that any net metering resource owned or operated by a renewable energy developer be treated as an eligible net metering system provided it is not in a core forest.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING (Defines core forest and preferred sites and provides that any net metering resource owned or operated by a renewable energy developer be treated as an eligible net metering system provided it is not in a core forest.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 684"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 684 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Energy", "Environment", "Public Utilities", "Solar Panel/Renewable Energy Products"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiMario", "Euer", "Kallman", "Lawson", "Miller", "Ruggerio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-17"
last_action: "2023-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20199053-9c56-4e6b-942e-e876c77ffc99"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "1399bac10939c3c8bc0d05d3f0da98fe1d24b4d612df568a778dd91114250379"
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 684 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING (Defines core forest and preferred sites and provides that any net metering resource owned or operated by a renewable energy developer be treated as an eligible net metering system provided it is not in a core forest.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **684 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0684A.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **5713** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **305** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Britto — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-17** 03/17/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** 03/17/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2023)
- **2023-03-22** 03/22/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-03-24** 03/24/2023 Scheduled for consideration (03/29/2023)
- **2023-03-28** 03/28/2023 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study `substitution`
- **2023-06-09** 06/09/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2023)
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/15/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-24** 06/24/2023 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/20199053-9c56-4e6b-942e-e876c77ffc99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).