---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- THE GOLD STAR FAMILY HIGHWAY (Provides an honorary name to a portion of highway on Chopmist Hill Road from Route 44 in Chepachet to the southern boundary of the town of Glocester, as the Gold Star Family Highway.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- THE GOLD STAR FAMILY HIGHWAY (Provides an honorary name to a portion of highway on Chopmist Hill Road from Route 44 in Chepachet to the southern boundary of the town of Glocester, as the Gold Star Family Highway.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 5131"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5131 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["General Assembly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chippendale", "Hawkins", "Place"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfbf9bb2-ac5d-41f1-ade0-0219d47809a1"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "2687c0ea7953fbfdc4a2964689619c9e52eef0a0640cdcd999d838e656e67797"
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 5131 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- THE GOLD STAR FAMILY HIGHWAY (Provides an honorary name to a portion of highway on Chopmist Hill Road from Route 44 in Chepachet to the southern boundary of the town of Glocester, as the Gold Star Family Highway.)

## Version chain

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

1. **5131 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H5131A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chippendale — primary (person)
- Hawkins — primary (person)
- Place — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** 01/16/2019 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** 01/18/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2019-01-23** 01/23/2019 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (01/24/2019)
- **2019-01-25** 01/25/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/31/2019)
- **2019-01-31** 01/31/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2019)
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/25/2019)
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-03** 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-08** 07/08/2019 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfbf9bb2-ac5d-41f1-ade0-0219d47809a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).