republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-605.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 COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--COURTS -- SUPERIOR COURT (Allows those individuals with prior convictions for possession with intent to deliver or crimes of violence, to be eligible for the drug court program in Superior Court.)	AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--COURTS -- SUPERIOR COURT (Allows those individuals with prior convictions for possession with intent to deliver or crimes of violence, to be eligible for the drug court program in Superior Court.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 605	Rhode Island SB 605 (2017)	bill	Civil Procedure Drugs Courts	enacted	Archambault Conley Lombardi McCaffrey Nesselbush	1	12	2	2017-03-15	2017-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/47e5c9bd-a71a-48ad-a268-fd64c6d253c0	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	55f75fcb14df858cef924468e3cb0324f1730773a8e7c24277402e221d3b97ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 605 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--COURTS -- SUPERIOR COURT (Allows those individuals with prior convictions for possession with intent to deliver or crimes of violence, to be eligible for the drug court program in Superior Court.)

Version chain

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

1. 605 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• COURTS - SUPERIOR COURT — 36–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PRO — 63–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Archambault — primary (person)
• Conley — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)
• McCaffrey — primary (person)
• Nesselbush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-15 03/15/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-03-30 03/30/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/06/2017)
• 2017-04-06 04/06/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-05-19 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2017)
• 2017-05-23 05/23/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-25 05/25/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2017)
• 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-01 06/01/2017 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-09-28 09/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-10-04 10/04/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47e5c9bd-a71a-48ad-a268-fd64c6d253c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).