---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES"
description: "Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2635"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2635 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Cano", "Felag", "Gallo", "McKenney", "Miller", "Pearson", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70b1d236-bccc-4545-891f-933637d8a358"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "5fdbc123d50743a3e5e2e469637f351b6ff7f49978927922806b8939c68c5f24"
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 2635 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES

Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom.

## Version chain

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

1. **2635 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2635A.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **62–7** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **33–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Cano — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** 03/29/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/04/2024)
- **2024-04-04** 04/04/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2024)
- **2024-06-03** 06/03/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-24** 06/24/2024 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/70b1d236-bccc-4545-891f-933637d8a358`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).