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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ELECTION AND QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Coventry to combine voting precincts for a special election for the school committee in 2019. Once the precincts are combined, the canvassers shall advertise such combination at least seven (7) days prior to the election.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ELECTION AND QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Coventry to combine voting precincts for a special election for the school committee in 2019. Once the precincts are combined, the canvassers shall advertise such combination at least seven (7) days prior to the election.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 182"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 182 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Coventry", "Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Raptakis", "Rogers"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-29"
+last_action: "2019-02-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdfa2c74-3b2f-4e8b-a046-02c30c2695da"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "eeda80cda167eddd68c1e47ff216463552755d0d23605e793178b880466d016a"
+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 SB 182 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ELECTION AND QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Coventry to combine voting precincts for a special election for the school committee in 2019. Once the precincts are combined, the canvassers shall advertise such combination at least seven (7) days prior to the election.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **182** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0182.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-29** 01/29/2019 Recommended for Immediate Consideration
+- **2019-01-29** 01/29/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-01-30** 01/30/2019 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** 02/01/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/05/2019)
+- **2019-02-05** 02/05/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-05** 02/05/2019 Placed on House Calendar (02/07/2019)
+- **2019-02-07** 02/07/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-02-07** 02/07/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-15** 02/15/2019 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/bdfa2c74-3b2f-4e8b-a046-02c30c2695da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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