---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHILDREN'S GROVE (Allows private corporation, Children’s Grove, to convey its open space and recreational property to nonprofit third parties or a municipal corporation; provided that, such property shall be held and maintained for public recreation and open space.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHILDREN'S GROVE (Allows private corporation, Children’s Grove, to convey its open space and recreational property to nonprofit third parties or a municipal corporation; provided that, such property shall be held and maintained for public recreation and open space.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 898"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 898 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bristol"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiPalma", "Felag", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-22"
last_action: "2019-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e77ddef-3f87-4ca4-af57-8b43ef0146f7"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "9d277c96edb29920865dd7cbeebedd0ba4d93d71aca320862faa01133cd659dd"
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 898 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHILDREN'S GROVE (Allows private corporation, Children’s Grove, to convey its open space and recreational property to nonprofit third parties or a municipal corporation; provided that, such property shall be held and maintained for public recreation and open space.)

## Version chain

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

1. **898** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0898.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-22** 05/22/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/30/2019)
- **2019-05-30** 05/30/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2019)
- **2019-06-06** 06/06/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** 06/10/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2019)
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2019)
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-02** 07/02/2019 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/1e77ddef-3f87-4ca4-af57-8b43ef0146f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).