RI HB 8334
deadAN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- RHODE ISLAND VOTING RIGHTS ACT
Rhode Island · 2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
Creates the Rhode Island voting rights act to establish procedures to prevent discrimination in the voting process.
- Introduced
- 2026-03-20
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2026-04-16 — 04/16/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Sponsors
- Boylanprimary
- Stewartprimary
- Casimiroprimary
- Alzateprimary
- Messierprimary
- Furtadoprimary
- Edwardsprimary
- Fogartyprimary
- Shanleyprimary
- Kazarianprimary
Committees
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Action timeline
2026-03-20
03/20/2026 Introduced, referred to House State Government & Elections
introduction,referral-committee
2026-03-20
03/20/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
2026-03-23
03/23/2026 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/26/2026)
2026-04-10
04/10/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/16/2026)
2026-04-16
04/16/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
committee-failure
Versions
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Documents
Votes
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Related bills
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Official source
Attribution
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