---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts 43 Railroad Street, Woonsocket, Plat 14R, Lot 205 from the provisions of § 3-7-19 regarding the permitting of alcoholic beverages retail licenses within a certain proximity to schools and churches.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts 43 Railroad Street, Woonsocket, Plat 14R, Lot 205 from the provisions of § 3-7-19 regarding the permitting of alcoholic beverages retail licenses within a certain proximity to schools and churches.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2310"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2310 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Education", "Licenses", "Religion", "Woonsocket"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Murray", "Picard", "Raptakis", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-04"
last_action: "2020-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1b0e80d-5af1-42d6-84ab-d94081f8059e"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "83fd62853fc4786bfac501c2cd54afd95c992cc73176452192bbcc0b84a965b1"
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 2310 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts 43 Railroad Street, Woonsocket, Plat 14R, Lot 205 from the provisions of § 3-7-19 regarding the permitting of alcoholic beverages retail licenses within a certain proximity to schools and churches.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2310** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/SenateText20/S2310.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Crowley — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Picard — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-04** 02/04/2020 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** 02/07/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/12/2020)
- **2020-02-12** 02/12/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13** 02/13/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (02/26/2020)
- **2020-02-26** 02/26/2020 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2020-02-27** 02/27/2020 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/11/2020)
- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-19** 06/19/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-27** 06/27/2020 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/d1b0e80d-5af1-42d6-84ab-d94081f8059e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).