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type: "Bill"
title: "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.)"
description: "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.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 673"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 673 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Departments", "Education", "Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Algiere", "Felag", "McCaffrey", "Sheehan", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-29"
last_action: "2017-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfee3600-674b-4c4a-879e-9e52fe1efdfe"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "db2fdecc0fcd630d19e7b89f950d0a0ae3b98cb4ad1ebf0ae1642d5ae1ab2bd0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0673.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **330** (pass) · legislature
- IN CONCURRENCE — **710** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfee3600-674b-4c4a-879e-9e52fe1efdfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).