Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 17:28:03 -04:00
parent c5c7033001
commit df176ce612
35391 changed files with 3191572 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES (Allows voters making a mark rather than signature to vote with proof of identity by affirming their mark to the electronic pollbook without need for an affidavit by election supervisors.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES (Allows voters making a mark rather than signature to vote with proof of identity by affirming their mark to the electronic pollbook without need for an affidavit by election supervisors.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 608"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 608 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Board of Elections", "Computer Technology", "Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cano", "Crowley", "DiPalma", "Metts", "Quezada"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-14"
+last_action: "2019-07-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b06eb550-d590-432c-bdcb-59811e323949"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "375c4614ec8b94b16248c71e81fdf31a701805961bd0b550c75342e807f6310e"
+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 608 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES (Allows voters making a mark rather than signature to vote with proof of identity by affirming their mark to the electronic pollbook without need for an affidavit by election supervisors.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **608** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0608.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cano — primary (person)
+- Crowley — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Metts — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-14** 03/14/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-15** 03/15/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2019)
+- **2019-03-21** 03/21/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/25/2019)
+- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/27/2019)
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b06eb550-d590-432c-bdcb-59811e323949`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+