---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $27,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR, OF WHICH UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES AND UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR OTHER TOWN PURPOSES"
description: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $27,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR, OF WHICH UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES AND UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR OTHER TOWN PURPOSES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2915"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2915 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bonds", "North Kingstown"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Calkin", "Cote", "Gee", "Sheehan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-05-17"
last_action: "2018-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e14c818-34e0-4f89-a232-27726b61ab0d"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "c44059e3f4f25604bebe8e0878fd849012eb0e98d35002fd9508b28981aea37b"
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 2915 (2018) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $27,000,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR, OF WHICH UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES AND UP TO $13,500,000 IS FOR OTHER TOWN PURPOSES

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **2915** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2915.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Archambault — primary (person)
- Calkin — primary (person)
- Cote — primary (person)
- Gee — primary (person)
- Sheehan — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-17** 05/17/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** 05/25/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/30/2018)
- **2018-05-30** 05/30/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-31** 05/31/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2018)
- **2018-06-06** 06/06/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-05** 07/05/2018 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/5e14c818-34e0-4f89-a232-27726b61ab0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).