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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Requires at least one precinct count unit and one voting booth per one hundred seventy-five (175) qualified electors in the district, be prepared and delivered by the board of elections to each voting district.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Requires at least one precinct count unit and one voting booth per one hundred seventy-five (175) qualified electors in the district, be prepared and delivered by the board of elections to each voting district.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 792"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 792 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Board of Elections", "Cities & Towns", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lynch Prata"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-25"
last_action: "2017-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/035e4926-44ce-47a7-b85a-d80d180019df"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "642ecddc355ecf10259e349a23eb21c71297b020c8795cd4f6a16e971714a8a3"
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 792 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Requires at least one precinct count unit and one voting booth per one hundred seventy-five (175) qualified electors in the district, be prepared and delivered by the board of elections to each voting district.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **792 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0792A.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **700** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **350** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-04-25** 04/25/2017 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
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2017)
- **2017-06-22** 06/22/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 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/035e4926-44ce-47a7-b85a-d80d180019df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).