---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES AND CLOSED MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT PLANS (Would facilitate locally administered retirement plans in Central Falls joining municipal employees retirement system.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES AND CLOSED MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT PLANS (Would facilitate locally administered retirement plans in Central Falls joining municipal employees retirement system.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 6236"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6236 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Central Falls", "Cities & Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maldonado", "McLaughlin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-06-20"
last_action: "2019-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6ac8476-3fc5-4146-b2b4-d280ede694fd"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "795eea4f723b7469d56a4ff49bdc3217d0fc3bba9db90bfbe01e34ca9708b860"
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 6236 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES AND CLOSED MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT PLANS (Would facilitate locally administered retirement plans in Central Falls joining municipal employees retirement system.)

## Version chain

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

1. **6236 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H6236A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maldonado — primary (person)
- McLaughlin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/24/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Scheduled for consideration
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Meeting postponed (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-16** 07/16/2019 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6ac8476-3fc5-4146-b2b4-d280ede694fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).