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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2938"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2938 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Licenses", "Property", "Providence"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-05-31"
+last_action: "2018-07-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baf0fad9-1d09-4edf-b08e-77af8b1ad121"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "10798811de35db168c9130172ea84a181917dd82ef1aaf86a8d93f572357c6df"
+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 2938 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2938** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2938.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Goodwin — 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`
+- **2018-06-18** 06/18/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/19/2018)
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2018)
+- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 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/baf0fad9-1d09-4edf-b08e-77af8b1ad121`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+