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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2251"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2251 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Fees", "Licenses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Picard"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-07-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89d05988-ce84-479a-b856-767e084968ff"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "a186290a191be135b8ea0d9e84a98b888de0a2e8d6e5e759410480036ca3702e"
+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 2251 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALE LICENSES (Reduces the alcoholic beverage manufacturing and wholesale licensing fee from three thousand dollars ($3,000) to five hundred dollars ($500).)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2251** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2251.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Picard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-01** 02/01/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** 03/02/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2018-03-06** 03/06/2018 Meeting postponed (03/07/2018)
+- **2018-03-07** 03/07/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/14/2018)
+- **2018-03-14** 03/14/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2018-04-20** 04/20/2018 Scheduled for consideration (04/25/2018)
+- **2018-04-25** 04/25/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-26** 04/26/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/02/2018)
+- **2018-05-02** 05/02/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2018-05-03** 05/03/2018 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/89d05988-ce84-479a-b856-767e084968ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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