---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION"
description: "Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish \"combined review boards\" to replace separate planning and zoning boards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2991"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2991 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "LaMountain"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-16"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a3b7174-3b28-4f11-b7dd-d5da0790e56d"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a6f52497505c8aa86de82a284adbcac7c6c234aa86d811c98c5b67b47003a13f"
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 2991 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION

Provides amendments to the membership provisions of planning boards or commissions and would enable municipalities to establish "combined review boards" to replace separate planning and zoning boards.

## Version chain

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

1. **2991** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2991.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-16** 04/16/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-10** 05/10/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/14/2024)
- **2024-05-14** 05/14/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2024)
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Committee recommends passage `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 read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/7a3b7174-3b28-4f11-b7dd-d5da0790e56d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).