---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS"
description: "Increases the landing fee for the town of New Shoreham from fifty cents ($.50) to one dollar ($1.00)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6246"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6246 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Spears"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-04-23"
last_action: "2025-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0c67095-1343-482b-a5f7-bfa50364aa5f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "8b9bd06f6eaa77c49bed18bbdd205e3db82514771dd21a0d8d09443003067cfe"
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 HB 6246 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS

Increases the landing fee for the town of New Shoreham from fifty cents ($.50) to one dollar ($1.00).

## Version chain

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

1. **6246** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6246.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Spears — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-23** 04/23/2025 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** 04/25/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/01/2025)
- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/28/2025)
- **2025-05-28** 05/28/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 House read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 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/d0c67095-1343-482b-a5f7-bfa50364aa5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).