republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/hb-7782.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 AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- RHODE ISLAND SEED ACT (Provides that jurisdiction of all use of agricultural and vegetable seeds is vested exclusively in the director of the department of environmental management.)	AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- RHODE ISLAND SEED ACT (Provides that jurisdiction of all use of agricultural and vegetable seeds is vested exclusively in the director of the department of environmental management.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	HB 7782	Rhode Island HB 7782 (2018)	bill	Agriculture Environment	enacted	Fogarty Hull Tanzi Winfield	1	11	1	2018-02-28	2018-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/3d6dea89-0735-4514-8df2-505cb8d8c8c7	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	a2b61edb77eb314b944358315f75fd9385a4ac5c926bf57ce7508b33e39e7b01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 7782 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- RHODE ISLAND SEED ACT (Provides that jurisdiction of all use of agricultural and vegetable seeds is vested exclusively in the director of the department of environmental management.)

Version chain

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

1. 7782 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 70–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fogarty — primary (person)
• Hull — primary (person)
• Tanzi — primary (person)
• Winfield — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-28 02/28/2018 Introduced, referred to House Corporations introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-30 03/30/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/03/2018)
• 2018-04-03 04/03/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2018-06-21 06/21/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2018)
• 2018-06-21 06/21/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-21 06/21/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2018)
• 2018-06-22 06/22/2018 House passed Sub A passage
• 2018-06-23 06/23/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2018)
• 2018-06-23 06/23/2018 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2018-07-02 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-07-02 07/02/2018 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d6dea89-0735-4514-8df2-505cb8d8c8c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).