republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-720.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (Authorizes the directors of the departments of environmental management and health to enforce the Federal Food Safety Modernization Act as it pertains to commercial growers of fruits and vegetables.)	AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (Authorizes the directors of the departments of environmental management and health to enforce the Federal Food Safety Modernization Act as it pertains to commercial growers of fruits and vegetables.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 720	Rhode Island SB 720 (2017)	bill	Food and Drugs Agriculture Health & Safety Environment	enacted	Calkin Conley Coyne Miller Sosnowski	1	14	2	2017-04-06	2017-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/f24ac47a-ab3d-499b-8eef-adb41907ec22	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	a6b33414b5785d14cbc630404ca1df1e48686d41db8b33680cedf4fd4e9da9b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 720 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- AGRICULTURAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (Authorizes the directors of the departments of environmental management and health to enforce the Federal Food Safety Modernization Act as it pertains to commercial growers of fruits and vegetables.)

Version chain

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

1. 720 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• DEPT. OF ENVIRON. MANAGEMENT — 35–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 69–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Calkin — primary (person)
• Conley — primary (person)
• Coyne — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)
• Sosnowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-06 04/06/2017 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
• 2017-06-02 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2017)
• 2017-06-07 06/07/2017 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
• 2017-06-07 06/07/2017 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
• 2017-06-09 06/09/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/14/2017)
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2017)
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-07-18 07/18/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-19 07/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f24ac47a-ab3d-499b-8eef-adb41907ec22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).