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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts two locations in the city of Providence from the objection provisions afforded to schools and churches as adjoining property owners of prospective liquor license holders.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts two locations in the city of Providence from the objection provisions afforded to schools and churches as adjoining property owners of prospective liquor license holders.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2937"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2937 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Licenses", "Property", "Providence"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin", "Quezada"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-05-31"
+last_action: "2018-07-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5a7f540-d0a1-46eb-9dae-c6bfdf1fa286"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "cbe3fa3280f1497ceaaac0cd013c087370dd3d9e9ff00ed8787949fa69ccdb00"
+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 2937 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts two locations in the city of Providence from the objection provisions afforded to schools and churches as adjoining property owners of prospective liquor license holders.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2937** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2937.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **68–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Goodwin — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-31** 05/31/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-01** 06/01/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/06/2018)
+- **2018-06-06** 06/06/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2018)
+- **2018-06-13** 06/13/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-16** 06/16/2018 Committee transferred to House Municipal Government
+- **2018-06-16** 06/16/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/19/2018)
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2018)
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-07-05** 07/05/2018 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/d5a7f540-d0a1-46eb-9dae-c6bfdf1fa286`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+