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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES (Amends definition of \"state agency\" for purposes of the chapter on \"state purchases\" to provide for an exemption for the URI board of trustees when making purchases funded by restricted, sponsored, or auxiliary monies, from the provisions of the chapter.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES (Amends definition of \"state agency\" for purposes of the chapter on \"state purchases\" to provide for an exemption for the URI board of trustees when making purchases funded by restricted, sponsored, or auxiliary monies, from the provisions of the chapter.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 7620"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7620 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property", "Public Works", "State Affairs", "State Departments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abney", "Kennedy", "McEntee", "Morin", "Slater"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-14"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9509b294-6370-4740-9a04-a318d35a7e18"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "2185c58e0b8eb513fd826dd97fb4dde7471e8699d527e7f613894703ea3c9967"
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 7620 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES (Amends definition of "state agency" for purposes of the chapter on "state purchases" to provide for an exemption for the URI board of trustees when making purchases funded by restricted, sponsored, or auxiliary monies, from the provisions of the chapter.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **7620** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7620.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **666** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Abney — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Morin — primary (person)
- Slater — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-14** 02/14/2020 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/11/2020)
- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House read and passed `passage`
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2020)
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-24** 06/24/2020 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/9509b294-6370-4740-9a04-a318d35a7e18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).