---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- ELECTRONIC RECORDING (Authorizes a city or town clerk/recorder of deeds, at the clerk's/recorder's option, to accept electronic documents for recording real property and land records and to index and store those documents.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- ELECTRONIC RECORDING (Authorizes a city or town clerk/recorder of deeds, at the clerk's/recorder's option, to accept electronic documents for recording real property and land records and to index and store those documents.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2145"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2145 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Land/Landfills", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-23"
last_action: "2018-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a118e69-7516-4f5c-a759-760c1f66c77d"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "624688a32eaeef6dd18f6b3ea65385a3c81aa35a4773289b717ec938fabcfb63"
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 2145 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- ELECTRONIC RECORDING (Authorizes a city or town clerk/recorder of deeds, at the clerk's/recorder's option, to accept electronic documents for recording real property and land records and to index and store those documents.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **2145 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2145Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Approval of Amendment — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Crowley — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-23** 01/23/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** 02/02/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/06/2018)
- **2018-02-06** 02/06/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-08** 06/08/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2018)
- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-29** 06/29/2018 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/8a118e69-7516-4f5c-a759-760c1f66c77d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).