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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2025 SB 953 Rhode Island SB 953 (2025)
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Rhode Island SB 953 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- MAIL BALLOTS

Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.

Version chain

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

  1. 953 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage — 350 (pass) · upper
  • IN CONCURRENCE — 632 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Appollonio — primary (person)
  • Dimitri — primary (person)
  • Patalano — primary (person)
  • Thompson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-04-04 04/04/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-04-18 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2025-04-21 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
  • 2025-04-29 04/29/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/01/2025)
  • 2025-05-01 05/01/2025 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-06 05/06/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/08/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-05-08 05/08/2025 Senate read and passed passage
  • 2025-05-09 05/09/2025 Referred to House State Government & Elections referral-committee
  • 2025-05-25 05/25/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2025)
  • 2025-05-29 05/29/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-30 05/30/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/03/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-03 06/03/2025 House passed in concurrence passage
  • 2025-06-05 06/05/2025 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-10 06/10/2025 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c20e94aa-a305-478c-b84a-05b29a728d93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).