---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Ashley Dopart-Preliasco to join Westley Richard Chaplin and John Joseph Correllus in marriage on or about May 30, 2020, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Ashley Dopart-Preliasco to join Westley Richard Chaplin and John Joseph Correllus in marriage on or about May 30, 2020, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2078"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2078 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations", "Marriage"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-21"
last_action: "2020-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/747e0a45-1f48-4922-a0f2-1b7dfad6aca8"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "5ab4bdb1f7337ca1c5bfd6cac39887e3007a9f7887e32d1e8875f288bcf1ec95"
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 2078 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Ashley Dopart-Preliasco to join Westley Richard Chaplin and John Joseph Correllus in marriage on or about May 30, 2020, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2078** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/SenateText20/S2078.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-21** 01/21/2020 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** 01/24/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/30/2020)
- **2020-01-30** 01/30/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** 02/04/2020 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (02/05/2020)
- **2020-02-05** 02/05/2020 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2020-02-06** 02/06/2020 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** 02/14/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/27/2020)
- **2020-02-27** 02/27/2020 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-28** 02/28/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (03/05/2020)
- **2020-03-05** 03/05/2020 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-03-05** 03/05/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** 03/13/2020 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/747e0a45-1f48-4922-a0f2-1b7dfad6aca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).