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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Provides that road abandonments by municipalities be properly recorded in land evidence records.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Provides that road abandonments by municipalities be properly recorded in land evidence records.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 731"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 731 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Dept. of Business Regulation", "Highways"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "McKenney", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-22"
+last_action: "2023-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/765d11c6-19e4-442d-9bc1-818c855bc0c0"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "d03096d3e45e4944a42cd2acb340d41b65f4bcfe5ef06cc5debc14750c6e7873"
+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 731 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- ABANDONMENT BY TOWNS (Provides that road abandonments by municipalities be properly recorded in land evidence records.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **731** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0731.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-22** 03/22/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-28** 04/28/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2023)
+- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2023-05-26** 05/26/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2023)
+- **2023-05-30** 05/30/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-30** 05/30/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2023-06-09** 06/09/2023 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/12/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 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/765d11c6-19e4-442d-9bc1-818c855bc0c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+