republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-636.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 636	Rhode Island SB 636 (2017)	bill	Criminal Offense Dept. of Environmental Management Fees Environment State Affairs	enacted	Archambault Conley Coyne Sosnowski	1	14	2	2017-03-29	2017-07-05	openstates	ocd-bill/13885d26-bbb7-43f3-8d4c-7edb6c74944d	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	84cb2b90f572c2674977f87a49756a2a4b808d5441018515ebb49f691b49c070	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 636 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Increases the administrative penalties that the director of DEM may impose for violations of environmental regulations up to five thousand dollars ($5,000).)

Version chain

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

1. 636 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• IN CONCURRENCE — 64–7 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 37–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Archambault — primary (person)
• Conley — primary (person)
• Coyne — primary (person)
• Sosnowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-29 03/29/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-07 04/07/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2017)
• 2017-04-12 04/12/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 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 Environment and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-06-02 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2017)
• 2017-06-08 06/08/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2017)
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 House 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/13885d26-bbb7-43f3-8d4c-7edb6c74944d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).