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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS (Allows the board of canvassers of the town of Bristol to combine two (2) or more voting districts for the representative district 68 special election in March, 2019.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS (Allows the board of canvassers of the town of Bristol to combine two (2) or more voting districts for the representative district 68 special election in March, 2019.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 9"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 9 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Bristol", "Cities & Towns", "Elections", "General Assembly"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Coyne", "Felag", "Seveney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-09"
+last_action: "2019-02-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d29c12b8-e892-4d5a-b42c-9fd0b41ceae4"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "bcf16163ce6c2465033584c94c0dad56a19ddd1f74ca5c071065b3f8fb4dc31b"
+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 9 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- VOTING DISTRICTS AND OFFICIALS (Allows the board of canvassers of the town of Bristol to combine two (2) or more voting districts for the representative district 68 special election in March, 2019.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0009.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **64–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Coyne — primary (person)
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- Seveney — 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 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-18** 01/18/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/23/2019)
+- **2019-01-23** 01/23/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-01-25** 01/25/2019 Scheduled for consideration (01/29/2019)
+- **2019-01-29** 01/29/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-01-29** 01/29/2019 Placed on House Calendar (01/31/2019)
+- **2019-01-31** 01/31/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-01-31** 01/31/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-08** 02/08/2019 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/d29c12b8-e892-4d5a-b42c-9fd0b41ceae4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+