Chapter 325
2024 -- S 3059
Enacted 06/25/2024

A N   A C T
RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- FEDERAL ELECTIVE OFFICERS

Introduced By: Senator Dawn M. Euer

Date Introduced: May 07, 2024

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
     SECTION 1. Section 17-4-11 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-4 entitled "Federal
Elective Officers" is hereby amended to read as follows:
     17-4-11. Meeting of electors — Vacancies.
     Presidential electors elected pursuant to this chapter shall meet in the state house in the city
of Providence on the first MondayTuesday after the second Wednesday in December after their
election, at the hour of 12 o’clock noon of that day, and if there is any vacancy in the office of
electors, occasioned by death, refusal to act, neglect to attend, or other cause, the electors present
shall immediately proceed to fill, by roll call and by a plurality of votes, the vacancy in the electoral
college; and when the electors appear, or the vacancy is filled as provided in this section, they shall
proceed to perform the duties required of electors by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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