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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 8"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 8 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Barrington", "Cities & Towns", "Elections", "General Assembly"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Coyne", "Lawson", "Lombardi", "Nesselbush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 5
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-09"
+last_action: "2019-01-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07920e7d-aebf-427d-9190-1750f5cfc57b"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "dfbd67ddd0d22a871abf5760ccab18c3800e8116b02055379d8095cd60dd8b1e"
+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 8 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0008.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ITEM 2 19-S 8 — **68–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Archambault — primary (person)
+- Coyne — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Nesselbush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-09** 01/09/2019 Recommended for Immediate Consideration
+- **2019-01-09** 01/09/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-01-10** 01/10/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-01-10** 01/10/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-01-18** 01/18/2019 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/07920e7d-aebf-427d-9190-1750f5cfc57b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+