republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2019/sb-8.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 TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)	AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2019	SB 8	Rhode Island SB 8 (2019)	bill	Barrington Cities & Towns Elections General Assembly	enacted	Archambault Coyne Lawson Lombardi Nesselbush	1	5	1	2019-01-09	2019-01-18	openstates	ocd-bill/07920e7d-aebf-427d-9190-1750f5cfc57b	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	dfbd67ddd0d22a871abf5760ccab18c3800e8116b02055379d8095cd60dd8b1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 8 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF OFFICERS (Allows the town of Barrington to combine five (5) voting districts into one for a special election to be held on February 5, 2019.)

Version chain

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

1. 8 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ITEM 2 19-S 8 — 68–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Archambault — primary (person)
• Coyne — primary (person)
• Lawson — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)
• Nesselbush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-09 01/09/2019 Recommended for Immediate Consideration
• 2019-01-09 01/09/2019 Senate read and passed passage
• 2019-01-10 01/10/2019 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2019-01-10 01/10/2019 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-01-18 01/18/2019 Effective without Governor's signature became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07920e7d-aebf-427d-9190-1750f5cfc57b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).