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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT"
description: "Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6392"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6392 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blazejewski", "Carson", "Cortvriend", "Cotter", "Craven", "Fogarty", "McEntee", "Spears", "Tanzi", "Voas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-05"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8987327-e327-4a84-84e1-82677bf3217f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "e2cf2e1a931acb135e2dd2bb9bf4482af13f459c3cbfc7d8bcbda1b3efb88106"
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 HB 6392 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- OUTDOOR DINING ACT
Allows food service businesses to provide temporary outdoor dining whenever building/other structure used for food service rendered uninhabitable by casualty fire/flood for 18 months or the building fit for occupancy sunsetting on 6/30/27.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **6392** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6392.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **660** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **5215** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blazejewski — primary (person)
- Carson — primary (person)
- Cortvriend — primary (person)
- Cotter — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Spears — primary (person)
- Tanzi — primary (person)
- Voas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Introduced, referred to House Small Business `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/10/2025)
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 House read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 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/d8987327-e327-4a84-84e1-82677bf3217f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).