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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES"
+description: "Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5698"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5698 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Bennett", "Caldwell", "Carson", "Cortvriend", "Diaz", "Fogarty", "Hull", "Kazarian", "Speakman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4a6b32b-261c-4d6e-af0a-86af2561b290"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "b5ca2e9c7789c2e9ab2e81cc3ff3a3ecc445eea82bea8ecf1b4825ac61b6a5bd"
+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 5698 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES
+
+Establishes the assessed value of owner-occupied low- and moderate-income housing as the most recent sales price of the property.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5698** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5698.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **66–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alzate — primary (person)
+- Bennett — primary (person)
+- Caldwell — primary (person)
+- Carson — primary (person)
+- Cortvriend — primary (person)
+- Diaz — primary (person)
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- Hull — primary (person)
+- Kazarian — primary (person)
+- Speakman — 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`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/20/2025)
+- **2025-03-20** 03/20/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/16/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/c4a6b32b-261c-4d6e-af0a-86af2561b290`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+