---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT (Amends the Harrisville fire district charter to allow the district to provide rescue services in addition to fire suppression, medical and ambulance services.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT (Amends the Harrisville fire district charter to allow the district to provide rescue services in addition to fire suppression, medical and ambulance services.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 313"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 313 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Burrillville", "Charter", "Fire District", "Health & Safety", "Medical"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["E Morgan", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b0309c5-cdb3-4d5c-ad7c-4403e0bd6657"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f0a2c2d20c7f8ff47c0e4b86bdb4f1dc904cbb4bad4f23b18165010b48063246"
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 313 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO HARRISVILLE FIRE DISTRICT (Amends the Harrisville fire district charter to allow the district to provide rescue services in addition to fire suppression, medical and ambulance services.)

## Version chain

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

1. **313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0313.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **68–2** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- E Morgan — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** 02/16/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03** 03/03/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2023-03-09** 03/09/2023 Meeting postponed (03/09/2023)
- **2023-03-10** 03/10/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2023)
- **2023-03-16** 03/16/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-04-28** 04/28/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/04/2023)
- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** 05/11/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Placed on House Calendar (05/16/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-23** 05/23/2023 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/8b0309c5-cdb3-4d5c-ad7c-4403e0bd6657`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).