---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL"
description: "Requires municipalities to maintain and update a list of CRMC designated rights-of-way to tidal areas in their municipality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 626"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 626 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "DiMario", "Gu", "Kallman", "McKenney", "Sosnowski", "Urso"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8735e153-4a04-4672-a4d7-1751ed1fda18"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "ab5b6d00ca7ccf9c389862bd2f18a139e65fb4fcff9955f31ddfb2b30f155a06"
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 626 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

Requires municipalities to maintain and update a list of CRMC designated rights-of-way to tidal areas in their municipality.

## Version chain

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

1. **626** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0626.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britto — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Gu — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** 03/06/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/15/2025)
- **2025-05-15** 05/15/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 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/8735e153-4a04-4672-a4d7-1751ed1fda18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).