---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF FRED’S AUTOHAUS, INC."
description: "AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF FRED’S AUTOHAUS, INC."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 7244"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7244 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Serpa", "Shekarchi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-02-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61c721ac-7e00-4f01-8726-fcac8c9270bf"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "e0d134ae411c9cce4b84c16c936eeb17b3d76c1a4714a07434c9cd20b8b8e25a"
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 7244 (2020) — AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF FRED’S AUTOHAUS, INC.

## Version chain

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

1. **7244** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7244.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Serpa — primary (person)
- Shekarchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** 01/22/2020 House read and passed `passage`
- **2020-01-22** 01/22/2020 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (01/28/2020)
- **2020-01-28** 01/28/2020 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-01-28** 01/28/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-05** 02/05/2020 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/61c721ac-7e00-4f01-8726-fcac8c9270bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).