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| Bill | AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS | Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level. | us/states/ri | Rhode Island General Assembly | 2024 | HB 7476 | Rhode Island HB 7476 (2024) |
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Rhode Island HB 7476 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS
Amends certain election statutes to require ballot questions be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by persons with an eighth-grade reading level.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 7476 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASSAGE — 75–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Baginski — primary (person)
- Bennett — primary (person)
- Casimiro — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Dawson — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)
- Shanley — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-02-02 02/02/2024 Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
introduction, referral-committee - 2024-03-22 03/22/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/26/2024)
- 2024-03-26 03/26/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
committee-failure - 2024-05-03 05/03/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/07/2024)
- 2024-05-07 05/07/2024 Committee recommends passage
committee-passage-favorable - 2024-05-10 05/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024)
reading-3 - 2024-05-14 05/14/2024 House read and passed
passage - 2024-05-17 05/17/2024 Referred to Senate Judiciary
referral-committee - 2024-05-21 05/21/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2024)
- 2024-05-23 05/23/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence
committee-passage-favorable - 2024-05-24 05/24/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/28/2024)
reading-3 - 2024-05-28 05/28/2024 Senate passed in concurrence
passage - 2024-05-30 05/30/2024 Transmitted to Governor
executive-receipt - 2024-06-04 06/04/2024 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/63578dd7-2961-4cfe-a9f9-45b13fd09640. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).