---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the Middletown Municipal Court to impose fines not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the Middletown Municipal Court to impose fines not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 7950"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7950 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Courts", "Fees", "Middletown"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mendonca", "Ruggiero"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-15"
last_action: "2018-07-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f99b0634-c342-4f9b-9b19-a9aef86778a1"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "cee0fcf49433791849e6470b45c577fc8f6cec00c67e1f99a646694bf1fa4e8f"
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 7950 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the Middletown Municipal Court to impose fines not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

## Version chain

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

1. **7950** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H7950.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mendonca — primary (person)
- Ruggiero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-15** 03/15/2018 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-16** 03/16/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2018)
- **2018-03-22** 03/22/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2018)
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-26** 06/26/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-04** 07/04/2018 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/f99b0634-c342-4f9b-9b19-a9aef86778a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).