---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to issue violations to vehicles which are used for illegal dumping of materials, pursuant to city and town ordinances.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to issue violations to vehicles which are used for illegal dumping of materials, pursuant to city and town ordinances.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2435"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2435 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conley", "Crowley", "Nesselbush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/218be8f6-04ba-4bd7-a823-64b49184a4ad"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "d0fad635b63c84a2c3b5adec689fc3507a431a2876ae5337c927941733d8795c"
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 2435 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to issue violations to vehicles which are used for illegal dumping of materials, pursuant to city and town ordinances.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2435** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2435.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Conley — primary (person)
- Crowley — primary (person)
- Nesselbush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** 02/15/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-04** 05/04/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/08/2018)
- **2018-05-08** 05/08/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-15** 06/15/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/218be8f6-04ba-4bd7-a823-64b49184a4ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).