Solar Facilities

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Solar Facilities; Defining the terms “agricultural land” and “decommissioned”; authorizing a county to adopt an ordinance requiring that certain solar facilities be properly decommissioned under certain circumstances; deleting a provision providing that a solar facility is a permitted use in certain land use categories and zoning districts and is subject to compliance with certain requirements; deleting a provision exempting solar facility substations from the electric substations for which local governments may adopt and enforce certain land development regulations, etc.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 26, 2025SenateFiled
2. Mar 6, 2025CommitteeReferred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy · Senate Regulated Industries
3. Mar 10, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 14, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building · Senate Regulated Industries
5. Mar 19, 2025CommitteeCS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 · Senate Regulated Industries8–0 vote
6. Mar 21, 2025SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
7. Mar 21, 2025CommitteeNow in Community Affairs · Senate Community Affairs
8. Mar 26, 2025CommitteeCS by Regulated Industries read 1st time · Senate Regulated Industries
9. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
10. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Community Affairs · Senate Community Affairs

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Jennifer BradleyR Primary sponsor · District 6
• RI Regulated Industries Sponsoring committee