---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7640"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7640 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Giraldo", "McLaughlin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d93d4ba-8f9a-442b-b442-ac6900d98138"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "fb735e6d3298d7f6bc2a3291522b7017aab803f4201908061b54634279832d04"
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 7640 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)

## Version chain

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

1. **7640 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/HouseText22/H7640A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **53–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alzate — primary (person)
- Giraldo — primary (person)
- McLaughlin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-02** 03/02/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-22** 04/22/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2022)
- **2022-04-26** 04/26/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-06-12** 06/12/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2022)
- **2022-06-13** 06/13/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2022-06-14** 06/14/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-15** 06/15/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-17** 06/17/2022 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2022-06-18** 06/18/2022 Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-18** 06/18/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-07-02** 07/02/2022 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/7d93d4ba-8f9a-442b-b442-ac6900d98138`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).