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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES"
+description: "Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5694"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5694 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carson", "Cortvriend", "Finkelman", "Spears"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aadf606a-eb7d-454a-ad4d-a1f03264a8fc"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "bcb8bca16560536acb02e92d84605b24df805e7b9f993bb94c5f93e2724e8dd8"
+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 HB 5694 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
+
+Allows the town of Middletown to adopt a tax classification plan for residential real estate which divides the class into non-owner and owner-occupied properties with separate tax rates.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5694** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5694.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **63–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carson — primary (person)
+- Cortvriend — primary (person)
+- Finkelman — primary (person)
+- Spears — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/04/2025)
+- **2025-03-04** 03/04/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (03/20/2025)
+- **2025-03-20** 03/20/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (03/25/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/10/2025)
+- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-11** 04/11/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (05/01/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aadf606a-eb7d-454a-ad4d-a1f03264a8fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+