---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 562"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 562 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Building Code", "Cities & Towns", "Electricity", "Dept. of Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallo", "Lynch Prata", "Miller"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-15"
last_action: "2017-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4ff2372-df21-4a55-b6f0-e6ec6b16183a"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "ca743932ec5f44b68528001958c5b9330491e0f053597c79de84f0d811e81f8d"
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 562 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)

## Version chain

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

1. **562** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0562.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-15** 03/15/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-03-20** 03/20/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2017)
- **2017-03-22** 03/22/2017 Committee heard
- **2017-04-21** 04/21/2017 Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2017)
- **2017-04-26** 04/26/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-27** 04/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2017)
- **2017-05-03** 05/03/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-05-04** 05/04/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-09** 06/09/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2017)
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-19** 06/19/2017 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/d4ff2372-df21-4a55-b6f0-e6ec6b16183a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).