---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Allows Providence board of licenses to grant an exemptions relating to issuance of a Class BL or Class BV alcoholic beverage retail licenses for 566 Plainfield Street & 777 Elmwood Avenue.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Allows Providence board of licenses to grant an exemptions relating to issuance of a Class BL or Class BV alcoholic beverage retail licenses for 566 Plainfield Street & 777 Elmwood Avenue.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 669"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 669 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Business & Professions", "Cities & Towns", "Licenses", "Providence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "F. Lombardi", "LaMountain"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-07"
last_action: "2023-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13942b7d-8e41-41ab-a49f-e463d4ba1f1e"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "9563539409e4790908754ea9248a2dd24ffda804adffa6dddb30ec4ab65b8f8a"
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 669 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Allows Providence board of licenses to grant an exemptions relating to issuance of a Class BL or Class BV alcoholic beverage retail licenses for 566 Plainfield Street & 777 Elmwood Avenue.)

## Version chain

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

1. **669** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0669.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- F. Lombardi — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-07** 03/07/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** 03/17/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2023)
- **2023-03-22** 03/22/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-03-24** 03/24/2023 Scheduled for consideration (03/29/2023)
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (04/04/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-04-04** 04/04/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** 04/05/2023 Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2023)
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/15/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-27** 06/27/2023 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/13942b7d-8e41-41ab-a49f-e463d4ba1f1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).