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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Cumberland, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Cumberland on November 6, 2018.)"
description: "AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Cumberland, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Cumberland on November 6, 2018.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 996"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 996 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter", "Cumberland"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pearson", "Picard"]
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/7bec6fe9-9eb7-4852-b8c7-5fc3275a1723"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "ca1e3b7a9d5032c2d782322e2530185ccb9a2cb232cbaafd62b38a8d9d6b0b44"
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 996 (2019) — AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Cumberland, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Cumberland on November 6, 2018.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **996** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0996.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **670** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Picard — 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`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 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 (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 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/7bec6fe9-9eb7-4852-b8c7-5fc3275a1723`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).