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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS CERTIFICATION ACT (Precludes the department of business regulation from pursing any administrative action against a certified appraiser more than five (5) years after the certified appraised issues a certified appraisal.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS CERTIFICATION ACT (Precludes the department of business regulation from pursing any administrative action against a certified appraiser more than five (5) years after the certified appraised issues a certified appraisal.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 259"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 259 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business & Professions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lynch Prata"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-13"
+last_action: "2019-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/993f7f16-dcca-4c0d-920f-96eb8638b903"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "8d296941603cb7722c1fee724545a26708e123acc9d536b029df26b73a020f69"
+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 259 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS CERTIFICATION ACT (Precludes the department of business regulation from pursing any administrative action against a certified appraiser more than five (5) years after the certified appraised issues a certified appraisal.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **259** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0259.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **69–1** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-13** 02/13/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-01** 03/01/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2019)
+- **2019-03-05** 03/05/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2019)
+- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-05** 06/05/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2019)
+- **2019-06-11** 06/11/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2019)
+- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2019)
+- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 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/993f7f16-dcca-4c0d-920f-96eb8638b903`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+