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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS (Exempts volunteer fire companies under the supervision, control, or jurisdiction of another public body from certain posting requirements of the open meetings act.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS (Exempts volunteer fire companies under the supervision, control, or jurisdiction of another public body from certain posting requirements of the open meetings act.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 261"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 261 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Fire District", "Open Meetings", "Police & Fire", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Felag"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-10"
+last_action: "2021-07-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5d18064-0394-49db-8caf-f269cc3cf0e1"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "d557d2de9d4ecf2be2e14ca9dfebea542729753a3b67ef1ddae66334d26057e0"
+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 261 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS (Exempts volunteer fire companies under the supervision, control, or jurisdiction of another public body from certain posting requirements of the open meetings act.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **261 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/SenateText21/S0261A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Felag — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-10** 02/10/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-09** 04/09/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/15/2021)
+- **2021-04-15** 04/15/2021 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-19** 04/19/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (04/27/2021)
+- **2021-04-27** 04/27/2021 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-28** 04/28/2021 Referred to House State Government & Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/28/2021)
+- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 Proposed Substitute
+- **2021-06-28** 06/28/2021 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-29** 06/29/2021 Placed on House Calendar (07/01/2021)
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (07/01/2021)
+- **2021-07-01** 07/01/2021 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2021-07-02** 07/02/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-07-10** 07/10/2021 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/e5d18064-0394-49db-8caf-f269cc3cf0e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+