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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $25,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE PURCHASE AND/OR ACQUISITION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY"
+description: "Authorizes Cranston to issue no more $25,000,000 obligation bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness to finance the purchase and/or acquisition of land/buildings, construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing, equipping"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 3355"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 3355 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "LaMountain", "Patalano", "Vargas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-06-05"
+last_action: "2026-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2111ee4-4365-48c4-ae1a-6ffcab1b1e4f"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "5d9e2ce0bc2244f81f74e7fa16c846e766e1981c0f2abfc4e0ccfc36b4ff8678"
+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 3355 (2026) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $25,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE PURCHASE AND/OR ACQUISITION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY
+
+Authorizes Cranston to issue no more $25,000,000 obligation bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness to finance the purchase and/or acquisition of land/buildings, construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing, equipping
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **3355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S3355.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Patalano — primary (person)
+- Vargas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/09/2026)
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-18** 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-26** 06/26/2026 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/a2111ee4-4365-48c4-ae1a-6ffcab1b1e4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+