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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SMALL BUSINESSES -- ZONING ORDINANCES (Imposes one year moratorium on enforcement of municipal ordinance or zoning requirement that penalizes owners of food service establishments/bars for modifications/alternations to their premises in response to an emergency declaration.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SMALL BUSINESSES -- ZONING ORDINANCES (Imposes one year moratorium on enforcement of municipal ordinance or zoning requirement that penalizes owners of food service establishments/bars for modifications/alternations to their premises in response to an emergency declaration.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2134"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2134 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Burke", "DiMario", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Lawson", "Murray", "Picard", "Valverde", "Zurier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-25"
last_action: "2022-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32716c99-381a-41a0-ac1d-06f2ab9c02d6"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "b9ccd24c5648aa2806aa69e36671259fe33a775033cc9926261825f9941396ba"
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 2134 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SMALL BUSINESSES -- ZONING ORDINANCES (Imposes one year moratorium on enforcement of municipal ordinance or zoning requirement that penalizes owners of food service establishments/bars for modifications/alternations to their premises in response to an emergency declaration.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **2134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2134.pdf)
## Votes
- ZONING ORDINANCES — **360** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **680** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Acosta — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Picard — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)
- Zurier — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-25** 01/25/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Special Legislation and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** 01/28/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/01/2022)
- **2022-02-01** 02/01/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-02** 02/02/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (02/08/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-02-08** 02/08/2022 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2022-02-08** 02/08/2022 Placed on House Calendar (02/10/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** 02/10/2022 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-02-10** 02/10/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-16** 02/16/2022 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32716c99-381a-41a0-ac1d-06f2ab9c02d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).