---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS - COASTAL RESILIENCY"
description: "Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) and a resiliency office within the department of environmental management (DEM) be charged with the creation, maintenance and updating of the state's resiliency and community recovery program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2298"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2298 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiMario", "Euer", "Gu", "Kallman", "LaMountain", "Miller", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae8dafb9-6d7b-4bd1-bb7e-32074b229b5a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "2a501ee87fe56e23b57c0b4050f8d845ac345a4cab388ebdea95ab4f8930530f"
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 2298 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS - COASTAL RESILIENCY

Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) and a resiliency office within the department of environmental management (DEM) be charged with the creation, maintenance and updating of the state's resiliency and community recovery program.

## Version chain

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

1. **2298 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2298Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Approval of Amendment — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** 02/12/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** 03/29/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/03/2024)
- **2024-04-03** 04/03/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2024)
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-26** 06/26/2024 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/ae8dafb9-6d7b-4bd1-bb7e-32074b229b5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).