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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 7051"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7051 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Courts", "Housing", "South Kingstown"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Filippi", "Fogarty", "McEntee", "Tanzi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24b6f74f-8a48-4179-84e9-1e178e165698"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "2e722d20d0b53c80aa9fdab018e0e71222cf6c9c558a5dc521ae82f8c4b2deec"
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 7051 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- GENERAL POWERS (Authorizes the town council of the town of South Kingstown to create a municipal court and housing court and defines the respective jurisdiction of those two courts.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **7051 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7051aa.pdf)
## Votes
- AS AMENDED — **720** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **720** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Filippi — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Tanzi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-09** 01/09/2020 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** 01/24/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/30/2020)
- **2020-01-30** 01/30/2020 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2020)
- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Removed from House Consent Calendar and
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2020)
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-26** 06/26/2020 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/24b6f74f-8a48-4179-84e9-1e178e165698`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).