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legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2846.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Allows the city of Providence to exempt 11 Lowell Avenue, 187 Pocasset Avenue and 191 Pocasset Avenue from the provisions of § 3-7-19 which would prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at that location.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Allows the city of Providence to exempt 11 Lowell Avenue, 187 Pocasset Avenue and 191 Pocasset Avenue from the provisions of § 3-7-19 which would prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at that location.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2846"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2846 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Providence"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "Lombardi", "Lombardo"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-05-03"
+last_action: "2018-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd14de2b-2ceb-4b7e-b793-1d9daaa25714"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "475d0a3eddf884c82296912dae51d25a37664f44fcfd9ad0cee678da320c0cd3"
+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 2846 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Allows the city of Providence to exempt 11 Lowell Avenue, 187 Pocasset Avenue and 191 Pocasset Avenue from the provisions of § 3-7-19 which would prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at that location.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2846** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2846.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Lombardo — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-03** 05/03/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-11** 05/11/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/16/2018)
+- **2018-05-16** 05/16/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-05-17** 05/17/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/23/2018)
+- **2018-05-23** 05/23/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2018-05-25** 05/25/2018 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-01** 06/01/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2018)
+- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-16** 06/16/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2018)
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 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/cd14de2b-2ceb-4b7e-b793-1d9daaa25714`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+