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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS--WARWICK MUNICIPAL COURT"
+description: "Expands the jurisdiction of the city of Warwick municipal court."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2149"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2149 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "LaMountain", "McKenney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3ebda88-7d8e-4792-a32d-0340006fb561"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "1e355a95c43fbf02ba44492b5727f7597672d52dc0132aa39fd68822500810c3"
+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 2149 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS--WARWICK MUNICIPAL COURT
+
+Expands the jurisdiction of the city of Warwick municipal court.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2149.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** 01/16/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** 02/20/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2026-02-23** 02/23/2026 Meeting postponed (02/24/2026)
+- **2026-02-23** 02/23/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/26/2026)
+- **2026-02-26** 02/26/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-03-24** 03/24/2026 Scheduled for consideration (03/26/2026)
+- **2026-03-26** 03/26/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-27** 03/27/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/31/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-31** 03/31/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-01** 04/01/2026 Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-03** 04/03/2026 Scheduled for consideration (04/07/2026)
+- **2026-04-07** 04/07/2026 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-05-29** 05/29/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/03/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-03** 06/03/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-03** 06/03/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 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/f3ebda88-7d8e-4792-a32d-0340006fb561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+