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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Allows town of Narragansett to sell highway or driftway to abutting owner at fair market value.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Allows town of Narragansett to sell highway or driftway to abutting owner at fair market value.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 302"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 302 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Highways", "Land/Landfills", "Narragansett", "Property"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DiMario"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-16"
+last_action: "2023-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fb72b12-3dcd-4a10-810e-32d2f7cac623"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "4145073b05875d10c425ee08b4431a3b65d028b093f809deeca755b98991f449"
+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 302 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Allows town of Narragansett to sell highway or driftway to abutting owner at fair market value.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **302** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0302.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–2** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-16** 02/16/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-10** 03/10/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2023-03-14** 03/14/2023 Meeting postponed (03/14/2023)
+- **2023-03-31** 03/31/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/04/2023)
+- **2023-04-04** 04/04/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2023)
+- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-27** 06/27/2023 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/3fb72b12-3dcd-4a10-810e-32d2f7cac623`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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