---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS - COASTAL RESILIENCY"
description: "Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) be charged with creation/maintenance/updating of the state's resiliency/recovery program along with climate change resiliency plan with ocean/riverine coasts resilience advisory board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7022"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7022 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Carson", "Casimiro", "Cortvriend", "Cotter", "Dawson", "Kazarian", "Kislak", "Speakman", "Spears"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a95f9e2-a326-4996-aee5-820ed93a1eda"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "c72c12295198d9e3c2e7fb9f1b4857bdf9ced63bd0c2fbc76e7b5929e7c45d4d"
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 HB 7022 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- ACT ON COASTS - COASTAL RESILIENCY

Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) be charged with creation/maintenance/updating of the state's resiliency/recovery program along with climate change resiliency plan with ocean/riverine coasts resilience advisory board.

## Version chain

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

1. **7022 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7022Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ajello — primary (person)
- Carson — primary (person)
- Casimiro — primary (person)
- Cortvriend — primary (person)
- Cotter — primary (person)
- Dawson — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)
- Kislak — primary (person)
- Speakman — primary (person)
- Spears — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** 01/05/2024 Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2024)
- **2024-03-21** 03/21/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-26** 06/26/2024 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/1a95f9e2-a326-4996-aee5-820ed93a1eda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).