---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 8343"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8343 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blazejewski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-06-20"
last_action: "2018-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/840ff2b7-6d8a-44d1-b9a0-81b9a3ff069f"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "fa472ef03f576c1483ccf8fe5878b398995517f7e3184c835993093ffe771501"
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 HB 8343 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES - RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts property located at 161 Douglas Avenue, Providence, from prohibition of sale of alcoholic beverages within two hundred feet (200') of any school or church.)

## Version chain

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

1. **8343** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H8343.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blazejewski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2018)
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-05** 07/05/2018 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/840ff2b7-6d8a-44d1-b9a0-81b9a3ff069f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).