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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)"
description: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 995"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 995 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter", "East Providence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conley", "Coyne", "Lawson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-20"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ebd718-6c7e-4bbc-a1fd-fe33371d66eb"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "321ad5ca86d514bd910936b14aae6f3da08e302e95bf2be5a84aecc2689f5dbd"
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 SB 995 (2019) — AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE (Ratifies and confirms the amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence establishing four (4) year terms for members of the city council.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **995** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0995.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **370** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **720** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Conley — primary (person)
- Coyne — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/25/2019)
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 House 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/c7ebd718-6c7e-4bbc-a1fd-fe33371d66eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).