---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS CONTRACTORS - REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD (Distinguishes the criminal penalties for violating a final order of the Contractors' Registration Board. Judgments less than $5,000 are misdemeanors; judgments $5,000 or more are felonies.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS CONTRACTORS - REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD (Distinguishes the criminal penalties for violating a final order of the Contractors' Registration Board. Judgments less than $5,000 are misdemeanors; judgments $5,000 or more are felonies.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2607"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2607 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Business & Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fogarty", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38bd3843-a7e1-4e4d-8caf-a5c4b7d3f822"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "3b65a7d3391bc82596dd5a8db3fbd140c1238ff06d1b5eab88f4aa1a9a95bc6b"
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 2607 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS CONTRACTORS - REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD (Distinguishes the criminal penalties for violating a final order of the Contractors' Registration Board. Judgments less than $5,000 are misdemeanors; judgments $5,000 or more are felonies.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2607** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2607.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fogarty — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** 03/01/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** 03/30/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/05/2018)
- **2018-04-05** 04/05/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-05-11** 05/11/2018 Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2018)
- **2018-05-17** 05/17/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-22** 05/22/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2018)
- **2018-05-24** 05/24/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-05-25** 05/25/2018 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-08** 06/08/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2018)
- **2018-06-12** 06/12/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-16** 06/16/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38bd3843-a7e1-4e4d-8caf-a5c4b7d3f822`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).