republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-770.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 -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (Provides that persons who apply to the DMV for a driver's license, its renewal or personal identification document shall simultaneously register to vote, unless they expressly decline to do so.)	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (Provides that persons who apply to the DMV for a driver's license, its renewal or personal identification document shall simultaneously register to vote, unless they expressly decline to do so.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 770	Rhode Island SB 770 (2017)	bill	Driver Licenses Elections Secretary of State	enacted	Conley Goldin Goodwin Lynch Prata Miller	1	11	2	2017-04-12	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/50f5ad54-6df6-467f-abf9-8fa63fbf53a0	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	e07faa66c5b03c8417b9837edbe2bb86c84aca9b79fb1fbe5048e14f5bb444b1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 770 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (Provides that persons who apply to the DMV for a driver's license, its renewal or personal identification document shall simultaneously register to vote, unless they expressly decline to do so.)

Version chain

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

1. 770 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- REGISTR — 69–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 32–4 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Conley — primary (person)
• Goldin — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Lynch Prata — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-12 04/12/2017 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
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 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
• 2017-09-15 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
• 2017-09-21 09/21/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-09-27 09/27/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50f5ad54-6df6-467f-abf9-8fa63fbf53a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).