republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-413.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS --POST-ELECTION AUDITS (Authorizes the board of elections to establish a post-election risk-limiting audit program to improve the accuracy of election results.)	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS --POST-ELECTION AUDITS (Authorizes the board of elections to establish a post-election risk-limiting audit program to improve the accuracy of election results.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 413	Rhode Island SB 413 (2017)	bill	Board of Elections Elections	enacted	Cote DiPalma Kettle Raptakis Sheehan	1	14	2	2017-03-02	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/39d05f5e-cc4f-4b5c-b5dd-21cdcbfe61d4	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	7ed627d7b699d88ed372558ac98ef6039c99e519ad10c98df9d3c0f1d4002751	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 413 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS --POST-ELECTION AUDITS (Authorizes the board of elections to establish a post-election risk-limiting audit program to improve the accuracy of election results.)

Version chain

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

1. 413 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• POST-ELECTION AUDITS — 36–0 (pass) · legislature
• RELATING TO ELECTIONS --POST-ELE — 63–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Cote — primary (person)
• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Kettle — primary (person)
• Raptakis — primary (person)
• Sheehan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-02 03/02/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-28 04/28/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2017)
• 2017-05-04 05/04/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-09-14 09/14/2017 Scheduled for consideration (09/15/2017)
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2017-10-03 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-10-05 10/05/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39d05f5e-cc4f-4b5c-b5dd-21cdcbfe61d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).