---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY - TRESPASS AND ACTIONS FOR POSSESSION (Prohibits encroachment upon open space land and allows the owner of open space land or holder of a conservation restriction to bring a civil action in superior court to remedy the encroachment of that land, and to recover damages.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY - TRESPASS AND ACTIONS FOR POSSESSION (Prohibits encroachment upon open space land and allows the owner of open space land or holder of a conservation restriction to bring a civil action in superior court to remedy the encroachment of that land, and to recover damages.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2682"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2682 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land/Landfills", "Open Space", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fogarty", "Gallo", "Goodwin", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-20"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3c9e6a0-6fe7-4a9a-a492-a9fda5793aca"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "7f3e6450ca32010841231f022f80a8fb732d60f8a841cffd041603c33afb7393"
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 2682 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY - TRESPASS AND ACTIONS FOR POSSESSION (Prohibits encroachment upon open space land and allows the owner of open space land or holder of a conservation restriction to bring a civil action in superior court to remedy the encroachment of that land, and to recover damages.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2682** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2682.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fogarty — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-20** 03/20/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** 04/06/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/10/2018)
- **2018-04-10** 04/10/2018 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 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 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 the House Consent 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/a3c9e6a0-6fe7-4a9a-a492-a9fda5793aca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).