---
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).