republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/hb-5947.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Defines the terms "conduit" and "earmarked" for purposes of reporting campaign contributions and eliminates the aggregate contribution limits and adds a prohibition of earmarked funds.)	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Defines the terms "conduit" and "earmarked" for purposes of reporting campaign contributions and eliminates the aggregate contribution limits and adds a prohibition of earmarked funds.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	HB 5947	Rhode Island HB 5947 (2017)	bill	Board of Elections Elections State Affairs General Assembly	enacted	Ajello Carson Casimiro Donovan Marszalkowski	1	11	1	2017-03-17	2017-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/13a4f31d-b618-48c5-9cf7-a5e1df465bd0	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	1bb160c0fea76eff576dec1c6e0c7c7038b587527fb834862ef091655d0f0625	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 5947 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Defines the terms "conduit" and "earmarked" for purposes of reporting campaign contributions and eliminates the aggregate contribution limits and adds a prohibition of earmarked funds.)

Version chain

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

1. 5947 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 67–3 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Ajello — primary (person)
• Carson — primary (person)
• Casimiro — primary (person)
• Donovan — primary (person)
• Marszalkowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-17 03/17/2017 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-07 04/07/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2017)
• 2017-04-12 04/12/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
• 2017-06-20 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-24 06/24/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/26/2017)
• 2017-06-26 06/26/2017 House read and passed passage
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Senate passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-07-13 07/13/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-18 07/18/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/13a4f31d-b618-48c5-9cf7-a5e1df465bd0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).