---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT (Reduces the items which must be monitored by the air-quality monitors at T.F. Green Airport to particles less than 0.1 microns, and black carbon.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT (Reduces the items which must be monitored by the air-quality monitors at T.F. Green Airport to particles less than 0.1 microns, and black carbon.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 767"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 767 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Airports", "Environment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-12"
last_action: "2017-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33a1dfe7-a976-428f-a1ca-902436c73b9c"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "0cefdb51c87cf41f68f846e6514c72782be54102004d60283a703725f13b5605"
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 767 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT (Reduces the items which must be monitored by the air-quality monitors at T.F. Green Airport to particles less than 0.1 microns, and black carbon.)

## Version chain

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

1. **767 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0767A.pdf)

## Votes

- MONITORING ACT — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
- RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE P — **69–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-12** 04/12/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-04-21** 04/21/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2017)
- **2017-04-25** 04/25/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2017)
- **2017-06-06** 06/06/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
- **2017-09-15** 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-09-21** 09/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-09-27** 09/27/2017 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/33a1dfe7-a976-428f-a1ca-902436c73b9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).