---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - RHODE ISLAND REGULATORY REFORM ACT (Requires the office of regulatory reform, in consultation with various state departments and plant-based and agriculture industry representatives, work to facilitate economic growth within plant-based industries and agriculture.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - RHODE ISLAND REGULATORY REFORM ACT (Requires the office of regulatory reform, in consultation with various state departments and plant-based and agriculture industry representatives, work to facilitate economic growth within plant-based industries and agriculture.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 6296"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6296 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "State Departments", "Environment", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blazejewski", "Craven", "Knight", "McEntee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-06-08"
last_action: "2017-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec662edd-d4fb-473d-8b70-3029294a2e6f"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "d4b20f51caf9f2deae7d9e2a1b27d31950df212d5ddb83d0db1ad820cff67d67"
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 6296 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - RHODE ISLAND REGULATORY REFORM ACT (Requires the office of regulatory reform, in consultation with various state departments and plant-based and agriculture industry representatives, work to facilitate economic growth within plant-based industries and agriculture.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **6296** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H6296.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blazejewski — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Knight — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-06-09** 06/09/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2017)
- **2017-06-13** 06/13/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2017)
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 House read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-07-17** 07/17/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-18** 07/18/2017 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/ec662edd-d4fb-473d-8b70-3029294a2e6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).