---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 636"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 636 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Offense", "Dept. of Environmental Management", "Fees", "Environment", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Conley", "Coyne", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-29"
last_action: "2017-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13885d26-bbb7-43f3-8d4c-7edb6c74944d"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "84cb2b90f572c2674977f87a49756a2a4b808d5441018515ebb49f691b49c070"
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 636 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)

## Version chain

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

1. **636** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0636.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–7** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Archambault — primary (person)
- Conley — primary (person)
- Coyne — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-29** 03/29/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-04-07** 04/07/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2017)
- **2017-04-12** 04/12/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **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 Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2017)
- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 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/13885d26-bbb7-43f3-8d4c-7edb6c74944d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).