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legislation/us/states/ri/2022/hb-7952.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Allows the town of Cumberland upon request to sell the highway or driftway to the abutting owner at fair value.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Allows the town of Cumberland upon request to sell the highway or driftway to the abutting owner at fair value.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 7952"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7952 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ackerman", "Marszalkowski", "McLaughlin"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-03-07"
+last_action: "2022-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2d49dc1-7b72-4b87-a752-6f40e87a8b13"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "832b8fb37c793a6b1627404191081bedd9f777d1ee8cce7640bfcf7a88155a91"
+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 HB 7952 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Allows the town of Cumberland upon request to sell the highway or driftway to the abutting owner at fair value.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7952** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/HouseText22/H7952.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **61–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ackerman — primary (person)
+- Marszalkowski — primary (person)
+- McLaughlin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-03-07** 03/07/2022 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-11** 03/11/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/17/2022)
+- **2022-03-17** 03/17/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2022-03-25** 03/25/2022 Scheduled for consideration (03/31/2022)
+- **2022-03-31** 03/31/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-01** 04/01/2022 Placed on House Calendar (04/05/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-04-05** 04/05/2022 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2022-04-26** 04/26/2022 Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-13** 05/13/2022 Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2022)
+- **2022-05-17** 05/17/2022 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-05-27** 05/27/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-05-31** 05/31/2022 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2022-05-31** 05/31/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-06-08** 06/08/2022 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/f2d49dc1-7b72-4b87-a752-6f40e87a8b13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+