---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 8094"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8094 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Statutory Construction"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shekarchi"]
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/cf14c4dc-cb5b-4284-acd2-4d2626648882"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "e83c3c4c36511a92019ec294286ea65390127cba566157fb621befcc700058f9"
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 8094 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION (This act makes a number of technical amendments to the general laws, prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.)

## Version chain

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

1. **8094** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H8094.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shekarchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-02** 07/02/2020 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-02** 07/02/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (07/07/2020)
- **2020-07-07** 07/07/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-07-14** 07/14/2020 Placed on House Calendar (07/16/2020)
- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 House read and passed `passage`
- **2020-07-16** 07/16/2020 Placed on Senate 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/cf14c4dc-cb5b-4284-acd2-4d2626648882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).