---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE (Expands the state building code standards committee by two members, to be appointed by the Rhode Island builders association.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE (Expands the state building code standards committee by two members, to be appointed by the Rhode Island builders association.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 479"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 479 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Building Code", "Health & Safety", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Jabour", "Lombardi", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-02"
last_action: "2017-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14b92931-4373-4d94-a9f8-79a8ab56d943"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "a1a560e07243fd199057bcb1192d962e7d5fb93e53568006c88801fe6c25b4d4"
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 479 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE (Expands the state building code standards committee by two members, to be appointed by the Rhode Island builders association.)

## Version chain

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

1. **479** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0479.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Archambault — primary (person)
- Jabour — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-02** 03/02/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-03-06** 03/06/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/08/2017)
- **2017-03-08** 03/08/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2017)
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2017)
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-15** 06/15/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-17** 06/17/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 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/14b92931-4373-4d94-a9f8-79a8ab56d943`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).