republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-897.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY (Prevents registered sex offenders from forming more than ten percent (10%) of the population of residential facilities receiving state funding or assistance, with certain exceptions.)	AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY (Prevents registered sex offenders from forming more than ten percent (10%) of the population of residential facilities receiving state funding or assistance, with certain exceptions.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 897	Rhode Island SB 897 (2017)	bill	Sexual Assault State Affairs	enacted	Gallo Lombardi	1	10	2	2017-05-11	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/1390cfcf-24c6-40d3-800c-ee5119402d29	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	2c5ece2bb5d63529ea5e8c2e1399f4ac94f8490ac6a36e3d6ac60d1fa2a20b35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 897 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY (Prevents registered sex offenders from forming more than ten percent (10%) of the population of residential facilities receiving state funding or assistance, with certain exceptions.)

Version chain

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

1. 897 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 30–5 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GO — 69–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Gallo — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-11 05/11/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/20/2017)
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-10-03 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-10-05 10/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1390cfcf-24c6-40d3-800c-ee5119402d29. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).