republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-562.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 TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)	AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 562	Rhode Island SB 562 (2017)	bill	Building Code Cities & Towns Electricity Dept. of Administration	enacted	Gallo Lynch Prata Miller	1	14	2	2017-03-15	2017-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d4ff2372-df21-4a55-b6f0-e6ec6b16183a	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	ca743932ec5f44b68528001958c5b9330491e0f053597c79de84f0d811e81f8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 562 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)

Version chain

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

1. 562 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• IN CONCURRENCE — 72–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 37–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Gallo — primary (person)
• Lynch Prata — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-15 03/15/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-20 03/20/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/22/2017)
• 2017-03-22 03/22/2017 Committee heard
• 2017-04-21 04/21/2017 Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2017)
• 2017-04-26 04/26/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-27 04/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2017)
• 2017-05-03 05/03/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-05-04 05/04/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
• 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-09 06/09/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2017)
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-19 06/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d4ff2372-df21-4a55-b6f0-e6ec6b16183a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).