republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-808.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	SB 808	Rhode Island SB 808 (2017)	bill	Board of Elections Elections	enacted	Lynch Prata	1	12	2	2017-04-25	2017-07-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d7d57fa4-8c42-4211-83cc-a27a65fec3fb	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	1578d984f525c2084d278a913e25af53897e8fdf9bc23d6c1e3778a6f206ea04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 808 (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. 808 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 32–2 (pass) · legislature
• IN CONCURRENCE — 70–0 (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 (06/06/2017)
• 2017-06-06 06/06/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-07 06/07/2017 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-06-24 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-07-18 07/18/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-07-19 07/19/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d7d57fa4-8c42-4211-83cc-a27a65fec3fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).