---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 8 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Barrington", "Cities & Towns", "Elections", "General Assembly"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Coyne", "Lawson", "Lombardi", "Nesselbush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-01-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07920e7d-aebf-427d-9190-1750f5cfc57b"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "dfbd67ddd0d22a871abf5760ccab18c3800e8116b02055379d8095cd60dd8b1e"
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 8 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **8** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0008.pdf)

## Votes

- ITEM 2 19-S 8 — **68–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Archambault — primary (person)
- Coyne — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Nesselbush — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-09** 01/09/2019 Recommended for Immediate Consideration
- **2019-01-09** 01/09/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-01-10** 01/10/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-01-10** 01/10/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-01-18** 01/18/2019 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07920e7d-aebf-427d-9190-1750f5cfc57b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).