---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- FOSTER MUNICIPAL COURT"
description: "Establishes a municipal court within the town of Foster."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2996"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2996 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rogers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-16"
last_action: "2024-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/993ea09a-d9ba-459f-86ab-cd2b00433579"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "aed840224b1d6e7dcb07e608d2a9bcbafe18049db208eef2c63f33534f09fa0d"
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 2996 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS -- FOSTER MUNICIPAL COURT

Establishes a municipal court within the town of Foster.

## Version chain

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

1. **2996** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2996.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **68–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-16** 04/16/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/02/2024)
- **2024-05-02** 05/02/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/07/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-07** 05/07/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-05-08** 05/08/2024 Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-25** 05/25/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/28/2024)
- **2024-05-28** 05/28/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/04/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 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/993ea09a-d9ba-459f-86ab-cd2b00433579`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).