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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Sean Scanlon to join Christina Yurchak and Justin Byrne in marriage on or about November 2, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Sean Scanlon to join Christina Yurchak and Justin Byrne in marriage on or about November 2, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 971"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 971 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lombardi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-06-13"
last_action: "2019-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5d4497c-5b43-45bf-8712-2b569ad5536f"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "19a6398b8355d8dd2a6d1966b5be6709dd75b2c3635d1f5225c384e25c57b773"
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 971 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Sean Scanlon to join Christina Yurchak and Justin Byrne in marriage on or about November 2, 2019, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **971** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0971.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **640** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lombardi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/19/2019)
- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Referred to House Special Legislation `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-03** 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 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/c5d4497c-5b43-45bf-8712-2b569ad5536f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).