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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Dina Spaziano to join Frank Salvatore Lombari, III, and Joseph William Dodge in marriage on or about October 29, 2018, within the Town of Smithfield, Rhode Island.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Dina Spaziano to join Frank Salvatore Lombari, III, and Joseph William Dodge in marriage on or about October 29, 2018, within the Town of Smithfield, Rhode Island.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2029"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2029 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Marriage"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lynch Prata"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-11"
+last_action: "2018-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3764b423-5319-4596-a529-45b095e3eeae"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "7d7ea23a628daa792ea7db874694267aa419a05d4cb8492a2171c687d9a800d4"
+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 2029 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Dina Spaziano to join Frank Salvatore Lombari, III, and Joseph William Dodge in marriage on or about October 29, 2018, within the Town of Smithfield, Rhode Island.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2029** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2029.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-11** 01/11/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** 01/19/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2018-01-22** 01/22/2018 Meeting postponed (01/23/2018)
+- **2018-01-26** 01/26/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2018)
+- **2018-02-01** 02/01/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-06** 02/06/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/07/2018)
+- **2018-02-07** 02/07/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2018-02-08** 02/08/2018 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** 02/19/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/27/2018)
+- **2018-02-27** 02/27/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-02** 03/02/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (03/06/2018)
+- **2018-03-06** 03/06/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-03-06** 03/06/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-14** 03/14/2018 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3764b423-5319-4596-a529-45b095e3eeae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+