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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS (Provides penalties for owners of structures who interfere with inspections by electrical investigators.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS (Provides penalties for owners of structures who interfere with inspections by electrical investigators.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 2979"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2979 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McCaffrey"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2022-05-19"
+last_action: "2022-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6523b7a7-1d75-4bf6-8494-eb8ff2a38637"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "7419275a6ec7b2bb90607612f442ed54147358f053c9037e3b75b3486526abf4"
+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 2979 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS (Provides penalties for owners of structures who interfere with inspections by electrical investigators.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2979 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2979A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-19** 05/19/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-27** 05/27/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
+- **2022-06-01** 06/01/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2022-06-03** 06/03/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
+- **2022-06-07** 06/07/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-07** 06/07/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-09** 06/09/2022 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2022-06-10** 06/10/2022 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2022)
+- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-06-29** 06/29/2022 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/6523b7a7-1d75-4bf6-8494-eb8ff2a38637`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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