---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2129"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2129 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Courts", "South Kingstown"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Sosnowski", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ecc1e8b-85d6-40fe-9f62-2a51fb0d65bd"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "d122a69d09f7d9a48846f6f62350da5d522f4a8610989616e50a81f695a6fe6e"
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 2129 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2129 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/SenateText20/S2129aa.pdf)

## Votes

- AS AMENDED — **72–0** (pass) · upper
- GENERAL POWERS — **30–1** (pass) · upper
- In Concurrence — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **72–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Algiere — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** 01/22/2020 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `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 recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** 02/04/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (02/11/2020)
- **2020-02-11** 02/11/2020 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2020-02-12** 02/12/2020 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/11/2020)
- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Removed from House Consent Calendar and
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2020)
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Senate passed as amended 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/5ecc1e8b-85d6-40fe-9f62-2a51fb0d65bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).