RI SB 2142
deadAN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- EMINENT DOMAIN
Rhode Island · 2026 Regular Session · upper
Description
Allows the department of environmental management to acquire established foot paths by eminent domain in order to provide public access to streams, rivers, lakes and ponds.
- Introduced
- 2026-01-16
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2026-04-01 — 04/01/2026 Referred to House Judiciary
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Sponsors
- Vargasprimary
- LaMountainprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2026-01-16
01/16/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
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2026-02-27
02/27/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2026)
2026-03-03
03/03/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
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2026-03-24
03/24/2026 Scheduled for consideration (03/26/2026)
2026-03-26
03/26/2026 Committee recommends passage
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2026-03-27
03/27/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/31/2026)
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2026-03-31
03/31/2026 Senate read and passed
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2026-04-01
04/01/2026 Referred to House Judiciary
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Versions
- 2142Compare
Documents
Votes
Passage
2026-03-31 · pass · 32-4
Member-level votes (38)
- Acosta: yes
- Appollonio, Jr.: yes
- Bell: yes
- Bissaillon: yes
- Britto: yes
- Burke: yes
- Ciccone: yes
- de la Cruz: no
- DiMario: yes
- Dimitri: yes
- DiPalma: yes
- Euer: yes
- Famiglietti: yes
- Felag: yes
- Gallo: yes
- Gu: yes
- Kallman: yes
- LaMountain: yes
- Lauria: yes
- Mack: yes
- McKenney: yes
- Morgan: no
- Murray: yes
- Paolino: no
- Patalano: yes
- Pearson: yes
- Quezada: yes
- Raptakis: other
- Rogers: no
- Sosnowski: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tikoian: yes
- Ujifusa: yes
- Urso: yes
- Valverde: other
- Vargas: yes
- Zurier: yes
- Madam President: yes
Related bills
No related bills recorded for this bill.
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Attribution
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