The House bill sets the boundary at six feet landward of the seaweed line. The Senate bill would set the line where vegetation grows. Can the General Assembly agree on a way forward this session?
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In 1663, King Charles II’s royal charter granted the citizens of Providence Plantations the right to freely fish. In 1842, the authors of the state’s Rhode Island beachgoers and waterfront landowners have a long history of battling it out over shoreline access boundaries.