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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT (Amends the Harrisville fire district charter to allow the district to provide rescue services in addition to fire suppression, medical and ambulance services.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT (Amends the Harrisville fire district charter to allow the district to provide rescue services in addition to fire suppression, medical and ambulance services.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 313"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 313 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Burrillville", "Charter", "Fire District", "Health & Safety", "Medical"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["E Morgan", "de la Cruz"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-16"
+last_action: "2023-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b0309c5-cdb3-4d5c-ad7c-4403e0bd6657"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "f0a2c2d20c7f8ff47c0e4b86bdb4f1dc904cbb4bad4f23b18165010b48063246"
+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 313 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT (Amends the Harrisville fire district charter to allow the district to provide rescue services in addition to fire suppression, medical and ambulance services.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0313.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **68–2** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- E Morgan — primary (person)
+- de la Cruz — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-16** 02/16/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-03** 03/03/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2023-03-09** 03/09/2023 Meeting postponed (03/09/2023)
+- **2023-03-10** 03/10/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2023)
+- **2023-03-16** 03/16/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2023-04-28** 04/28/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/04/2023)
+- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-11** 05/11/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Placed on House Calendar (05/16/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-23** 05/23/2023 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/8b0309c5-cdb3-4d5c-ad7c-4403e0bd6657`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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