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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS"
+description: "Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding \"mail voters\" on the ballot."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 953"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 953 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Dimitri", "Patalano", "Thompson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c20e94aa-a305-478c-b84a-05b29a728d93"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "9f13017b5995912e28e965043869db7272a151aded392c4784863e00572b904d"
+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 953 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS
+
+Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **953** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0953.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- Patalano — primary (person)
+- Thompson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
+- **2025-04-29** 04/29/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/01/2025)
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/08/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Referred to House State Government & Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-25** 05/25/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2025)
+- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/03/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 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/c20e94aa-a305-478c-b84a-05b29a728d93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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