---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $25,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE PURCHASE AND/OR ACQUISITION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY"
description: "Authorizes Cranston to issue no more $25,000,000 obligation bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness to finance the purchase and/or acquisition of land/buildings, construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing, equipping"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3355"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3355 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "LaMountain", "Patalano", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-06-05"
last_action: "2026-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2111ee4-4365-48c4-ae1a-6ffcab1b1e4f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "5d9e2ce0bc2244f81f74e7fa16c846e766e1981c0f2abfc4e0ccfc36b4ff8678"
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 3355 (2026) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $25,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE PURCHASE AND/OR ACQUISITION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY

Authorizes Cranston to issue no more $25,000,000 obligation bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness to finance the purchase and/or acquisition of land/buildings, construction, renovation, improvement, alteration, repair, landscaping, furnishing, equipping

## Version chain

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

1. **3355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S3355.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gallo — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/09/2026)
- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2026-06-18** 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-26** 06/26/2026 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/a2111ee4-4365-48c4-ae1a-6ffcab1b1e4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).