---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - ELECTRICIANS (Includes within the licensing and certification process required by the board of electricians the maintenance of certain electrical components.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - ELECTRICIANS (Includes within the licensing and certification process required by the board of electricians the maintenance of certain electrical components.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 513"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 513 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Licenses", "Business & Professions", "Electricians", "Labor"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lombardi", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-02"
last_action: "2017-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af0e2599-6dc9-4c5c-813f-44b786877a53"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "81fb1eda552edeba3ddff3ed0f9a6c51b195f8a4e63128b1555416bf9e3056e7"
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 513 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - ELECTRICIANS (Includes within the licensing and certification process required by the board of electricians the maintenance of certain electrical components.)

## Version chain

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

1. **513** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0513.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–7** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Lombardi — 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 Labor `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
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2017)
- **2017-06-13** 06/13/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2017)
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 House 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/af0e2599-6dc9-4c5c-813f-44b786877a53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).