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HB 6111

AN ACT RELATING TO VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Jay Edwards and 1 co-sponsor

The bill gives legal effect to Tiverton’s Nov 5, 2024 charter amendments that required state ratification, validating them without altering other laws or powers.

05/30/2025 Effective without Governor's signature
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Bill Summary · HB 6111

Summary — HB 6111

Title: AN ACT RELATING TO VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON

Purpose

This act ratifies, validates, confirms, and enacts amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the Town of Tiverton that were approved by Tiverton voters on November 5, 2024 — but only to the extent those amendments require legislative ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment by the Rhode Island General Assembly. The legislature’s stated intent is to give legal effect to those charter provisions that lawfully require state action.

Key provisions

  • Ratification/validation: The General Assembly expressly ratifies, confirms, validates, and enacts the Tiverton charter amendments adopted November 5, 2024, in any respects that require such legislative action.
  • Limited scope: The act applies only where the town amendments require legislative ratification/validation; it does not otherwise change or expand state law or the town’s charter.
  • Preservation of home rule powers: The act states that nothing in it is intended to abrogate or impair powers granted to towns by the Rhode Island Constitution’s home rule amendment or other state law, nor to affect rights retained by Tiverton in its charter.
  • Severability: If any part of the act is held invalid, remaining provisions remain effective.

Who is affected

  • Town of Tiverton municipal government and its officers: the validated charter provisions will govern local structure, processes, or powers as adopted by local voters.
  • Tiverton residents and voters: the validated amendments (as adopted Nov 5, 2024) take on confirmed legal status where legislative action was necessary.
  • State and local officials responsible for implementing charter provisions that required legislative enactment.

Procedural / timeline details

  • Town electorate approved the charter amendments: November 5, 2024.
  • Introduced in the Rhode Island House: March 19, 2025 (Sponsors: Representatives McGaw and Edwards).
  • Committee and floor actions: referred to House Municipal Government & Housing; committee consideration and recommendations followed.
  • Passed both chambers and transmitted to the Governor; became effective without the Governor’s signature on May 30, 2025 (effective upon passage per the act’s language).

Notes / Clarifications

  • The bill text provided in some sources contained unrelated material from another state’s legislative draft; the operative Rhode Island act (LC001052) is the validation/ratification measure described above.
  • The act does not enumerate the specific charter changes; it gives legal effect to those amendments adopted by Tiverton voters to the extent state ratification was required.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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