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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS"
+description: "Requires that the primary election date, statutorily the eighth Tuesday preceding the biennial state elections, shall be held on the Wednesday when Labor Day is the day before said Tuesday. No other filing deadlines would be affected."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2147"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2147 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "LaMountain"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21b9079e-f4c6-4735-8413-9f2e808f944a"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "d64f01b1719a5af91ee9a31fb5710fa48deeefc17de7b10404d133f925c1c8af"
+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 2147 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- PRIMARY ELECTIONS
+
+Requires that the primary election date, statutorily the eighth Tuesday preceding the biennial state elections, shall be held on the Wednesday when Labor Day is the day before said Tuesday. No other filing deadlines would be affected.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2147 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2147A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **34–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — 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`
+- **2026-03-24** 03/24/2026 Scheduled for consideration (03/26/2026)
+- **2026-03-24** 03/24/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2026-03-26** 03/26/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-27** 03/27/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/31/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-31** 03/31/2026 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2026-04-01** 04/01/2026 Referred to House State Government & Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-03** 04/03/2026 Scheduled for consideration (04/07/2026)
+- **2026-04-07** 04/07/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** 04/10/2026 Placed on House Calendar (04/16/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-04-16** 04/16/2026 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-04-16** 04/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-20** 04/20/2026 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/21b9079e-f4c6-4735-8413-9f2e808f944a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+