republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-794.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Gives local boards discretion to designate times and places where optical scan voting equipment and sample ballots are exhibited for instructional purposes.)	AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Gives local boards discretion to designate times and places where optical scan voting equipment and sample ballots are exhibited for instructional purposes.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 794	Rhode Island SB 794 (2017)	bill	Board of Elections Elections	enacted	Lynch Prata	1	14	2	2017-04-25	2017-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d09b6d76-cbd3-48de-9d00-29aee5760519	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	2b5f8957ed061c2a8bfd8e2da4ae8b156ae364bc2d2be696bc65759e8f4d9845	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 794 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Gives local boards discretion to designate times and places where optical scan voting equipment and sample ballots are exhibited for instructional purposes.)

Version chain

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

1. 794 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES — 36–0 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 72–0 (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
• 2017-05-19 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2017)
• 2017-05-23 05/23/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-25 05/25/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/31/2017)
• 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-01 06/01/2017 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-06-02 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2017)
• 2017-06-06 06/06/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-09 06/09/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/14/2017)
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-19 06/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d09b6d76-cbd3-48de-9d00-29aee5760519. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).