---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO AMENDING THE CHARTER OF NORTH PROVIDENCE (Amends the North Providence legislative town charter to gradually increase the mayor's compensation from ($75,000.00) to ($85,000.00) for FY 2020, to ($95,000.00) for FY 2021, to ($105,000.00) beginning on FY 2022 and each year thereafter.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO AMENDING THE CHARTER OF NORTH PROVIDENCE (Amends the North Providence legislative town charter to gradually increase the mayor's compensation from ($75,000.00) to ($85,000.00) for FY 2020, to ($95,000.00) for FY 2021, to ($105,000.00) beginning on FY 2022 and each year thereafter.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 7192"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7192 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter", "North Providence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ackerman", "Corvese", "Hull", "O'Brien", "Shekarchi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6387c46-2f38-4655-9f9a-5f57085fd3b5"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "0fe3cb6cd79a7cfeae77648962dd2e7e30bc766b424ed83a4d50fa070a902390"
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 7192 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO AMENDING THE CHARTER OF NORTH PROVIDENCE (Amends the North Providence legislative town charter to gradually increase the mayor's compensation from ($75,000.00) to ($85,000.00) for FY 2020, to ($95,000.00) for FY 2021, to ($105,000.00) beginning on FY 2022 and each year thereafter.)

## Version chain

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

1. **7192** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7192.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ackerman — primary (person)
- Corvese — primary (person)
- Hull — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)
- Shekarchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** 01/22/2020 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** 01/24/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/30/2020)
- **2020-01-30** 01/30/2020 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2020)
- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House read and passed `passage`
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2020)
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-26** 06/26/2020 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/d6387c46-2f38-4655-9f9a-5f57085fd3b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).