---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, DEMOLITION, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT FOR THE TOWN HALL AT 80 BOSTON NECK ROAD AND AT MEMORIAL PARK (PLAT 90 LOT 23) AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $7,500,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes the town of North Kingstown to issue not more than seven million five hundred dollars ($7,500,000) in bonds and notes to finance improvements and/or related equipment for the town hall.)"
description: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, DEMOLITION, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT FOR THE TOWN HALL AT 80 BOSTON NECK ROAD AND AT MEMORIAL PARK (PLAT 90 LOT 23) AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $7,500,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes the town of North Kingstown to issue not more than seven million five hundred dollars ($7,500,000) in bonds and notes to finance improvements and/or related equipment for the town hall.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 828"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 828 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bonds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sheehan", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-30"
last_action: "2019-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddefe132-011b-4080-901c-2e644485aadc"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "271f24ef25d3ecc001a5a804ff11cee530f0da47fb52acff6d28fe01f85cbee3"
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 828 (2019) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATIONS, DEMOLITION, REMEDIATION, ALTERATIONS, ADDITIONS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR RELATED EQUIPMENT FOR THE TOWN HALL AT 80 BOSTON NECK ROAD AND AT MEMORIAL PARK (PLAT 90 LOT 23) AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $7,500,000 BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes the town of North Kingstown to issue not more than seven million five hundred dollars ($7,500,000) in bonds and notes to finance improvements and/or related equipment for the town hall.)

## Version chain

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

1. **828** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0828.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **75–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sheehan — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-30** 04/30/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-10** 05/10/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/16/2019)
- **2019-05-16** 05/16/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-21** 05/21/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/23/2019)
- **2019-05-23** 05/23/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Committee transferred to House Municipal Government
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2019-06-10** 06/10/2019 Meeting postponed (06/11/2019)
- **2019-06-10** 06/10/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2019)
- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2019)
- **2019-06-19** 06/19/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-02** 07/02/2019 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/ddefe132-011b-4080-901c-2e644485aadc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).