---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Authorizes that the building at 4 Howard Avenue in the city of Cranston would hereafter be named and known as the \"Attorney General Julius C. Michaelson Customer Service Center.\")"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Authorizes that the building at 4 Howard Avenue in the city of Cranston would hereafter be named and known as the \"Attorney General Julius C. Michaelson Customer Service Center.\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2811"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2811 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Cranston", "General Assembly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "Lynch Prata"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-05"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5f6ca82-f9c7-4255-a65e-2f6836fcdb02"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "1b69cfb5387382df2b1eddca604ffadb8f63a955da1470d82dababa388d53dce"
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 2811 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Authorizes that the building at 4 Howard Avenue in the city of Cranston would hereafter be named and known as the "Attorney General Julius C. Michaelson Customer Service Center.")

## Version chain

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

1. **2811** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2811.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-05** 04/05/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-20** 04/20/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2018)
- **2018-04-25** 04/25/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-01** 06/01/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2018)
- **2018-06-06** 06/06/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2018)
- **2018-06-13** 06/13/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 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/f5f6ca82-f9c7-4255-a65e-2f6836fcdb02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).