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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING NEW BUILDINGS (Names Route 4 and Route 1 from Warwick to Westerly The Purple Heart Memorial Highway.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING NEW BUILDINGS (Names Route 4 and Route 1 from Warwick to Westerly The Purple Heart Memorial Highway.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 2344"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2344 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["General Assembly", "Highways", "Warwick", "Westerly"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "Sheehan", "Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-13"
+last_action: "2020-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5bafdcb-aba6-45a2-85af-1c17811f379a"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "954c8844a721751a26225a2fca0acb7865f246e42e889fb896153e7df5bda3ab"
+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 2344 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING NEW BUILDINGS (Names Route 4 and Route 1 from Warwick to Westerly The Purple Heart Memorial Highway.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2344 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/SenateText20/S2344aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Approval of Amendment — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Algiere — primary (person)
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+- Sheehan — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-13** 02/13/2020 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-21** 02/21/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/26/2020)
+- **2020-02-26** 02/26/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-27** 02/27/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/04/2020)
+- **2020-03-04** 03/04/2020 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** 03/05/2020 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2020)
+- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2020-06-19** 06/19/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-24** 06/24/2020 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/b5bafdcb-aba6-45a2-85af-1c17811f379a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+