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legislation/us/states/ri/2023/sb-729.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION (Establishes an escrow account for tenants to deposit their rent whenever the leased property is not compliant with the lead hazard risk reduction provisions in state law.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION (Establishes an escrow account for tenants to deposit their rent whenever the leased property is not compliant with the lead hazard risk reduction provisions in state law.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 729"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 729 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Attorney General", "Health & Safety", "Housing", "Landlord & Tenant", "State Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bell", "Britto", "DiMario", "Euer", "Gu", "Kallman", "Lawson", "Mack", "McKenney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-22"
+last_action: "2023-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3d3750b-9eac-49ad-aab6-5cda349fa9ee"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "fb0325b333c96542f2fc8f3840436964577cf05942911cfd9c4f09c140f099f2"
+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 729 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LEAD HAZARD MITIGATION (Establishes an escrow account for tenants to deposit their rent whenever the leased property is not compliant with the lead hazard risk reduction provisions in state law.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **729 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0729aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–4** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **31–6** (pass) · upper
+- Approval of Amendment — **30–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- Britto — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Gu — primary (person)
+- Kallman — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-22** 03/22/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/16/2023)
+- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2023-05-28** 05/28/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2023)
+- **2023-06-01** 06/01/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-02** 06/02/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/08/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2023-06-09** 06/09/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 House passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 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/f3d3750b-9eac-49ad-aab6-5cda349fa9ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+