republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-673.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY (Changes the director and other positions at the state crime laboratory from board of governors' appointments to employees of the council on postsecondary education.)	AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY (Changes the director and other positions at the state crime laboratory from board of governors' appointments to employees of the council on postsecondary education.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 673	Rhode Island SB 673 (2017)	bill	State Departments Education Criminal Procedure	enacted	Algiere Felag McCaffrey Sheehan Sosnowski	1	12	2	2017-03-29	2017-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/bfee3600-674b-4c4a-879e-9e52fe1efdfe	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	db2fdecc0fcd630d19e7b89f950d0a0ae3b98cb4ad1ebf0ae1642d5ae1ab2bd0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 673 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE -- STATE CRIME LABORATORY (Changes the director and other positions at the state crime laboratory from board of governors' appointments to employees of the council on postsecondary education.)

Version chain

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

1. 673 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 71–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Algiere — primary (person)
• Felag — primary (person)
• McCaffrey — primary (person)
• Sheehan — 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 Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-21 04/21/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2017)
• 2017-04-25 04/25/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-27 04/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/04/2017)
• 2017-05-04 05/04/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-05-05 05/05/2017 Referred to House H.E.W. referral-committee
• 2017-06-02 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2017)
• 2017-06-07 06/07/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2017)
• 2017-06-21 06/21/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-21 06/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfee3600-674b-4c4a-879e-9e52fe1efdfe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).