---
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: "SB 980"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 980 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-16"
last_action: "2025-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4aeb2cc8-123a-410b-8812-1b8e2e282fd8"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f8cf896c2997ef296c14368272b75f724cfe185fd034c86643a3b5d723fda6f7"
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 980 (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. **980 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0980A.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-16** 04/16/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/08/2025)
- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 House passed Sub A 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/4aeb2cc8-123a-410b-8812-1b8e2e282fd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).