republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/hb-5805.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (Creates a division of marine fisheries within DEM to manage salt water fish and plant harvesting.)	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (Creates a division of marine fisheries within DEM to manage salt water fish and plant harvesting.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	HB 5805	Rhode Island HB 5805 (2017)	bill	Dept. of Environmental Management Water Environment Fish & Wildlife State Affairs	enacted	Carson Donovan Fogarty Handy McEntee	1	11	1	2017-03-01	2017-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/1a9d8088-ce18-4974-8053-8e812927b5cc	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	ac94f89a7268f4eeda31b62636979ce0c1d0713a00999e6615b086fedcd86cd7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 5805 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (Creates a division of marine fisheries within DEM to manage salt water fish and plant harvesting.)

Version chain

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

1. 5805 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 60–10 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Carson — primary (person)
• Donovan — primary (person)
• Fogarty — primary (person)
• Handy — primary (person)
• McEntee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-01 03/01/2017 Introduced, referred to House Finance referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-06-02 06/02/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/08/2017)
• 2017-06-08 06/08/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 House passed Sub A passage
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-07-13 07/13/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-18 07/18/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a9d8088-ce18-4974-8053-8e812927b5cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).