Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ri/2017/hb-5609.md

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 5609"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5609 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration", "Dept. of Environmental Management", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fogarty", "Hearn", "Kazarian", "Maldonado", "Winfield"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-03-01"
+last_action: "2017-07-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fc1da19-488c-47b9-90e3-c0776b42faff"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "ed8af615cd42198ff27bbce7319c07cd1c05d62a9004ef2eb16f4be533379ce8"
+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 5609 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5609** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H5609.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **62–7** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- Hearn — primary (person)
+- Kazarian — primary (person)
+- Maldonado — primary (person)
+- Winfield — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-01** 03/01/2017 Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-03-24** 03/24/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2017)
+- **2017-03-30** 03/30/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2017)
+- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-09** 06/09/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2017)
+- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2017)
+- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-22** 06/22/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
+- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 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/9fc1da19-488c-47b9-90e3-c0776b42faff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+