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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES"
+description: "Requires party chairpersons to submit lists of party voters to the mayor or council president within 30 days of notice of vacancy in a municipal election office and mayor/council president are required to make a replacement nomination within 30 days."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2136"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2136 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Dimitri", "Gallo", "LaMountain"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4745bcda-6520-4350-ac77-7bd1c4a5f76c"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "8052b3707cab07e7f13371a958d924b17ee47ac0991379a8e12c7d71ef95293a"
+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 2136 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITIES
+
+Requires party chairpersons to submit lists of party voters to the mayor or council president within 30 days of notice of vacancy in a municipal election office and mayor/council president are required to make a replacement nomination within 30 days.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2136 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2136A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** 01/16/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** 02/20/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2026-02-23** 02/23/2026 Meeting postponed (02/24/2026)
+- **2026-02-23** 02/23/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/26/2026)
+- **2026-02-26** 02/26/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-06-05** 06/05/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2026)
+- **2026-06-08** 06/08/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-18** 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-23** 06/23/2026 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/4745bcda-6520-4350-ac77-7bd1c4a5f76c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+