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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)"
+description: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 995"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 995 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Charter", "East Providence"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Conley", "Coyne", "Lawson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-06-20"
+last_action: "2019-07-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ebd718-6c7e-4bbc-a1fd-fe33371d66eb"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "321ad5ca86d514bd910936b14aae6f3da08e302e95bf2be5a84aecc2689f5dbd"
+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 995 (2019) — AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **995** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0995.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Conley — primary (person)
+- Coyne — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/25/2019)
+- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/26/2019)
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/27/2019)
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 House 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/c7ebd718-6c7e-4bbc-a1fd-fe33371d66eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+