---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office. Article I contains the reenactment of title 5 of the general laws. Article II includes the statutory construction provisions.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office. Article I contains the reenactment of title 5 of the general laws. Article II includes the statutory construction provisions.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 6207"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6207 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Filippi", "Shekarchi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-06-12"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45560800-b622-4824-9d90-bb3564bce012"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "91df199557940bbab9491654cc4175ec8ab8c7b93ab5cec8efaf04426589639a"
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 6207 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTES AND STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office. Article I contains the reenactment of title 5 of the general laws. Article II includes the statutory construction provisions.)

## Version chain

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

1. **6207** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H6207.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **71–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Filippi — primary (person)
- Shekarchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-23** 06/23/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/25/2019)
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 House read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Referred to Senate Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-19** 07/19/2019 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/45560800-b622-4824-9d90-bb3564bce012`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).