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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office. Article I contains the reenactment of title 5 of the general laws. Article II includes the statutory construction provisions.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office. Article I contains the reenactment of title 5 of the general laws. Article II includes the statutory construction provisions.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 6207"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 6207 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Filippi", "Shekarchi"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-06-12"
+last_action: "2019-07-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45560800-b622-4824-9d90-bb3564bce012"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "91df199557940bbab9491654cc4175ec8ab8c7b93ab5cec8efaf04426589639a"
+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 HB 6207 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office. Article I contains the reenactment of title 5 of the general laws. Article II includes the statutory construction provisions.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **6207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H6207.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **71–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Filippi — primary (person)
+- Shekarchi — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Introduced, referred to House 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 recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-06-23** 06/23/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/25/2019)
+- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/27/2019)
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Referred to Senate Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/27/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-19** 07/19/2019 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/45560800-b622-4824-9d90-bb3564bce012`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+