republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/hb-5488.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS (Reduces the number of hours of instruction required to obtain a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license from fifteen hundred (1,500) to twelve hundred (1,200) hours.)	AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS (Reduces the number of hours of instruction required to obtain a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license from fifteen hundred (1,500) to twelve hundred (1,200) hours.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	HB 5488	Rhode Island HB 5488 (2017)	bill	Licenses Business & Professions	enacted	Coughlin Johnston Keable	1	14	1	2017-02-15	2017-07-05	openstates	ocd-bill/82ada24b-6e97-41d4-a53c-4f7f90cc6459	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	ae303e6c38f5d18c65f3e8b6020be9ddc0e8ca393e8e83f34e61e1bd6874573c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 5488 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS (Reduces the number of hours of instruction required to obtain a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license from fifteen hundred (1,500) to twelve hundred (1,200) hours.)

Version chain

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

1. 5488 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 71–2 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Coughlin — primary (person)
• Johnston — primary (person)
• Keable — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 02/15/2017 Introduced, referred to House Corporations referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-03 03/03/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/07/2017)
• 2017-03-07 03/07/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-03-24 03/24/2017 Scheduled for consideration (03/28/2017)
• 2017-03-28 03/28/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-04 04/04/2017 Placed on House Calendar (04/06/2017)
• 2017-04-06 04/06/2017 House read and passed passage
• 2017-05-30 05/30/2017 Referred to Senate Labor referral-committee
• 2017-06-09 06/09/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/14/2017)
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-22 06/22/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2017)
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Senate passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-05 07/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82ada24b-6e97-41d4-a53c-4f7f90cc6459. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).