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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS (Amends the election laws to change certain deadlines for declarations of candidacy, party disaffiliation and submission of nomination papers for special federal elections.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS (Amends the election laws to change certain deadlines for declarations of candidacy, party disaffiliation and submission of nomination papers for special federal elections.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 840"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 840 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Board of Elections", "Elections", "State Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["F. Lombardi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8019753a-b34c-4fbc-b8ab-4be24b9038b8"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "b77144f21095a42d74fbac7d4279c869920fa63522952498097e06a1404e3c7d"
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 840 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- GENERAL PROVISIONS (Amends the election laws to change certain deadlines for declarations of candidacy, party disaffiliation and submission of nomination papers for special federal elections.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **840** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0840.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **690** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- F. Lombardi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-29** 03/29/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** 03/31/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/04/2023)
- **2023-04-04** 04/04/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-04-28** 04/28/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/04/2023)
- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** 05/11/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (05/16/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 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/8019753a-b34c-4fbc-b8ab-4be24b9038b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).