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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Kevyn Kelly Smith to join Claire Pelham and Joseph Clegg in marriage on or about September 15, 2018, within the City of Cranston, Rhode Island.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Kevyn Kelly Smith to join Claire Pelham and Joseph Clegg in marriage on or about September 15, 2018, within the City of Cranston, Rhode Island.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2978"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2978 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Marriage"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-06-19"
last_action: "2018-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8cf39982-ee31-4d9e-b7ac-f54808bfa633"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "72fbed6d927ab28e4d671139afe6316cc80ab7a3b0de11d227c3ee16776ffe62"
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 2978 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Kevyn Kelly Smith to join Claire Pelham and Joseph Clegg in marriage on or about September 15, 2018, within the City of Cranston, Rhode Island.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **2978** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2978.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **665** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Miller — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-05** 07/05/2018 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/8cf39982-ee31-4d9e-b7ac-f54808bfa633`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).