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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS (Requires that any person operating or owning a dam with a storage capacity greater than one thousand four hundred (1,400) normal storage acre feet of water to obtain a permit from the director of the DEM to raise or lower the water level behind the dam.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS (Requires that any person operating or owning a dam with a storage capacity greater than one thousand four hundred (1,400) normal storage acre feet of water to obtain a permit from the director of the DEM to raise or lower the water level behind the dam.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 2181"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2181 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Archambault", "Calkin", "Lombardo", "Raptakis", "Rogers", "Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-08"
+last_action: "2022-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b119091-fd8e-40fd-aea4-ca0f8219218f"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "13eee1350b073ec5c42f790ada5af256b62d19a6a0778a3488529210e96992f8"
+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 2181 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- DAM PERMITS (Requires that any person operating or owning a dam with a storage capacity greater than one thousand four hundred (1,400) normal storage acre feet of water to obtain a permit from the director of the DEM to raise or lower the water level behind the dam.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2181 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2181A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–3** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **34–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderson — primary (person)
+- Archambault — primary (person)
+- Calkin — primary (person)
+- Lombardo — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-08** 02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-22** 04/22/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2022)
+- **2022-04-26** 04/26/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2022-04-27** 04/27/2022 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
+- **2022-04-27** 04/27/2022 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study `substitution`
+- **2022-05-27** 05/27/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2022)
+- **2022-05-31** 05/31/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2022-06-01** 06/01/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-01** 06/01/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-09** 06/09/2022 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2022-06-10** 06/10/2022 Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-11** 06/11/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2022)
+- **2022-06-15** 06/15/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-06-27** 06/27/2022 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/9b119091-fd8e-40fd-aea4-ca0f8219218f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+