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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 8094"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 8094 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Statutory Construction"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Shekarchi"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-07-02"
+last_action: "2020-07-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf14c4dc-cb5b-4284-acd2-4d2626648882"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "e83c3c4c36511a92019ec294286ea65390127cba566157fb621befcc700058f9"
+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 8094 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **8094** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H8094.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **68–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Shekarchi — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-07-02** 07/02/2020 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-02** 07/02/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (07/07/2020)
+- **2020-07-07** 07/07/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-07-14** 07/14/2020 Placed on House Calendar (07/16/2020)
+- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (07/16/2020)
+- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2020-07-17** 07/17/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-07-25** 07/25/2020 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/cf14c4dc-cb5b-4284-acd2-4d2626648882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+