republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-1008.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 STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - RHODE ISLAND SAILING EVENTS COMMISSION (Creates the Rhode Island Sailing Events Commission in order to attract amateur and professional marine events in Rhode Island.)	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - RHODE ISLAND SAILING EVENTS COMMISSION (Creates the Rhode Island Sailing Events Commission in order to attract amateur and professional marine events in Rhode Island.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 1008	Rhode Island SB 1008 (2017)	bill	Commissions Resolutions	enacted	Coyne DiPalma Felag Seveney	1	7	2	2017-06-29	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/47ca2c51-87e3-4728-8280-0a19b07221fc	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	b26ce872025c7b3ec6252a0f9d48a69d2c7c163f8723a2a81e333e0c98de31b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 1008 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - RHODE ISLAND SAILING EVENTS COMMISSION (Creates the Rhode Island Sailing Events Commission in order to attract amateur and professional marine events in Rhode Island.)

Version chain

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

1. 1008 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GO — 63–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Coyne — primary (person)
• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Felag — primary (person)
• Seveney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar
• 2017-09-14 09/14/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-10-03 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-10-05 10/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47ca2c51-87e3-4728-8280-0a19b07221fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).