---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING NEW BUILDINGS (Names Route 4 and Route 1 from Warwick to Westerly The Purple Heart Memorial Highway.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING NEW BUILDINGS (Names Route 4 and Route 1 from Warwick to Westerly The Purple Heart Memorial Highway.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2344"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2344 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["General Assembly", "Highways", "Warwick", "Westerly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "Sheehan", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-13"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5bafdcb-aba6-45a2-85af-1c17811f379a"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "954c8844a721751a26225a2fca0acb7865f246e42e889fb896153e7df5bda3ab"
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 2344 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY - JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING NEW BUILDINGS (Names Route 4 and Route 1 from Warwick to Westerly The Purple Heart Memorial Highway.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2344 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/SenateText20/S2344aa.pdf)

## Votes

- Approval of Amendment — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage as Amended — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Algiere — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- Sheehan — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-13** 02/13/2020 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** 02/21/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/26/2020)
- **2020-02-26** 02/26/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** 02/27/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/04/2020)
- **2020-03-04** 03/04/2020 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** 03/05/2020 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-19** 06/19/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-24** 06/24/2020 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/b5bafdcb-aba6-45a2-85af-1c17811f379a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).