---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Christopher Buonanno to join Teeana Pauline Pimental and Brandon Matthew Caton in marriage on or about October 6, 2018, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Christopher Buonanno to join Teeana Pauline Pimental and Brandon Matthew Caton in marriage on or about October 6, 2018, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 8330"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8330 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Resolutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lima", "Shekarchi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-06-19"
last_action: "2018-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/841548ec-3230-47d8-a436-4e0dde2cedfd"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "b13d81a0b7a7d10a317d1860eb8ce3cc66704329a546abdbaadee614e0d9bf98"
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 8330 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Christopher Buonanno to join Teeana Pauline Pimental and Brandon Matthew Caton in marriage on or about October 6, 2018, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)

## Version chain

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

1. **8330** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H8330.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lima — primary (person)
- Shekarchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 House read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-28** 06/28/2018 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/841548ec-3230-47d8-a436-4e0dde2cedfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).