---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - THE GREEN BUILDINGS ACT (Expands the \"Green Buildings Act\" to include public projects and updates the standards to include LEED for Neighborhood Development, and SITES.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - THE GREEN BUILDINGS ACT (Expands the \"Green Buildings Act\" to include public projects and updates the standards to include LEED for Neighborhood Development, and SITES.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 952"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 952 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coyne", "DiPalma", "Miller", "Seveney", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-08"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c9b53c2-b24b-4543-8a2c-af43bb01af0a"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "506d4b94ebede7b1230a2ee85c444008428be3a2beadf14072dbf5c3328554ca"
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 952 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS - THE GREEN BUILDINGS ACT (Expands the "Green Buildings Act" to include public projects and updates the standards to include LEED for Neighborhood Development, and SITES.)

## Version chain

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

1. **952 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0952A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · legislature
- RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND — **63–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Coyne — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-06-09** 06/09/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/14/2017)
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/30/2017)
- **2017-09-08** 09/08/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (09/14/2017)
- **2017-09-14** 09/14/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-14** 09/14/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-10-03** 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-10-05** 10/05/2017 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/9c9b53c2-b24b-4543-8a2c-af43bb01af0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).