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legislation/us/states/ri/2019/hb-5026.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Authorizes the town of Barrington to fill a vacancy on the Barrington town council by combining all town council voting districts into one district for a special election in 2019.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Authorizes the town of Barrington to fill a vacancy on the Barrington town council by combining all town council voting districts into one district for a special election in 2019.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 5026"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5026 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Barrington", "Cities & Towns", "Elections", "General Assembly"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cassar", "Knight"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-04"
+last_action: "2019-01-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc11ad10-9156-466c-91cd-f24921596ee0"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "bf1f57699b8c4206172ee78f6d8e938ee595c8de88c9d9145bb008da8e6b5dc7"
+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 HB 5026 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Authorizes the town of Barrington to fill a vacancy on the Barrington town council by combining all town council voting districts into one district for a special election in 2019.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5026** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H5026.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ITEM 1 19-H 5026 — **68–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cassar — primary (person)
+- Knight — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-04** 01/04/2019 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-10** 01/10/2019 Recommended for Immediate Consideration
+- **2019-01-10** 01/10/2019 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-01-15** 01/15/2019 Recommended for Immediate Consideration
+- **2019-01-15** 01/15/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-01-15** 01/15/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-01-23** 01/23/2019 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc11ad10-9156-466c-91cd-f24921596ee0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+