republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-71.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - GENERAL POWERS (Requires that cities and towns comply with certain procedures when prosecuting defendants such as the right to counsel, and would amend the penalties imposed for ordinance violations.)	AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - GENERAL POWERS (Requires that cities and towns comply with certain procedures when prosecuting defendants such as the right to counsel, and would amend the penalties imposed for ordinance violations.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 71	Rhode Island SB 71 (2017)	bill	Cities & Towns Public Officers Courts	enacted	Archambault Conley Jabour Lombardi McCaffrey	1	11	2	2017-01-18	2017-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/b9a61dad-3aaf-4e22-8851-5a600cf8b483	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	1f1f1f5c3b85f943e8ed071bb5e98eede57e91d28e15a28d9a6ff515116d8865	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 71 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - GENERAL POWERS (Requires that cities and towns comply with certain procedures when prosecuting defendants such as the right to counsel, and would amend the penalties imposed for ordinance violations.)

Version chain

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

1. 71 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 70–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-18 01/18/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-02-03 02/03/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/07/2017)
• 2017-02-07 02/07/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2017)
• 2017-06-22 06/22/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2017-06-24 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9a61dad-3aaf-4e22-8851-5a600cf8b483. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).