---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO CITIES AND TOWNS -- SEWAGE CHARGES -- TOWN OF COVENTRY (Authorizes the town of Coventry to provide for the payment of sewer assessments in installments up to a thirty year period.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO CITIES AND TOWNS -- SEWAGE CHARGES -- TOWN OF COVENTRY (Authorizes the town of Coventry to provide for the payment of sewer assessments in installments up to a thirty year period.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2208"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2208 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Archambault", "Burke", "E Morgan", "Lombardo", "Paolino", "Raptakis", "Rogers", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-08"
last_action: "2022-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a560863f-5503-44ff-89eb-476e71982663"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "8bc9ebdfa510083330cbf0b367ee4c5f578937aaa66b38c0450a90d5e670d5c2"
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 2208 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO CITIES AND TOWNS -- SEWAGE CHARGES -- TOWN OF COVENTRY (Authorizes the town of Coventry to provide for the payment of sewer assessments in installments up to a thirty year period.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2208.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- TOWN OF COVENTRY — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Archambault — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- E Morgan — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- Paolino — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08** 02/08/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-11** 03/11/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
- **2022-03-15** 03/15/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-06-20** 06/20/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-28** 06/28/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-07-06** 07/06/2022 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/a560863f-5503-44ff-89eb-476e71982663`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).