---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, RENOVATION, REPAIR, ALTERATION, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes the city of Cranston to issue not more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the construction, improvement, renovation, repair, alteration, furnishing and equipping of public buildings.)"
description: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, RENOVATION, REPAIR, ALTERATION, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes the city of Cranston to issue not more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the construction, improvement, renovation, repair, alteration, furnishing and equipping of public buildings.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 8089"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8089 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bonds", "Cranston"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Handy", "Lima", "Mattiello", "Millea"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-07-02"
last_action: "2020-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dc4ae76-afae-48d3-8185-fcfbb9a005f7"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "0e17d8f2d719cec469641c0910f09c58d0a5eb6e5064b8025ea7ec0baaba7c3c"
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 8089 (2020) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, RENOVATION, REPAIR, ALTERATION, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR (Authorizes the city of Cranston to issue not more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) general obligation bonds and temporary notes for the construction, improvement, renovation, repair, alteration, furnishing and equipping of public buildings.)

## Version chain

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

1. **8089** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H8089.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Handy — primary (person)
- Lima — primary (person)
- Mattiello — primary (person)
- Millea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-02** 07/02/2020 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-02** 07/02/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (07/09/2020)
- **2020-07-09** 07/09/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-07-14** 07/14/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (07/16/2020)
- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 House read and passed `passage`
- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (07/16/2020)
- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-07-17** 07/17/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-25** 07/25/2020 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/1dc4ae76-afae-48d3-8185-fcfbb9a005f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).