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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS"
+description: "Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 520"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 520 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke", "Gu", "Lawson", "McKenney", "Pearson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b14b1ae1-add0-4e80-a09c-902942b70ba7"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "96fa81adcc382d7d8ed809f2df79d126c33ec20e0116fc5941fa3e5cd1824f8d"
+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 520 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS
+
+Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **520** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0520.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **59–13** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **30–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Gu — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/20/2025)
+- **2025-03-20** 03/20/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/b14b1ae1-add0-4e80-a09c-902942b70ba7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+