---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD (Revises the manner in which complaints against contractors are made, processed, investigated, and resolved in a more efficient and expeditious manner and makes various technical and grammatical corrections.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD (Revises the manner in which complaints against contractors are made, processed, investigated, and resolved in a more efficient and expeditious manner and makes various technical and grammatical corrections.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2814"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2814 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-03-24"
last_action: "2022-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff348255-c581-44d0-9273-62345ab1d64a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "47574cb5d18990fd53c4a8e14a812cb73d0bdf1507cc699dafc51a92c68e59ae"
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 2814 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONTRACTORS' REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD (Revises the manner in which complaints against contractors are made, processed, investigated, and resolved in a more efficient and expeditious manner and makes various technical and grammatical corrections.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2814 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2814aa.pdf)

## Votes

- REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- AS AMENDED — **71–0** (pass) · upper
- REGISTRATION AND LICENSING BOARD — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-24** 03/24/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-01** 04/01/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2022)
- **2022-04-06** 04/06/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-05-06** 05/06/2022 Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
- **2022-05-11** 05/11/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** 05/12/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** 05/17/2022 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2022-05-18** 05/18/2022 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-28** 05/28/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2022)
- **2022-05-31** 05/31/2022 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-28** 06/28/2022 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/ff348255-c581-44d0-9273-62345ab1d64a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).