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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: "SB 499"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 499 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Burke", "Lawson", "McKenney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86faaeec-a81a-4f84-8da0-a057953f714d"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "fbce9b360ccf702f9a4bb5933805fdf5557a5ae6e10b86e807ccb3891445085a"
+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 499 (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. **499** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0499.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
+- **2025-04-29** 04/29/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/01/2025)
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House 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/86faaeec-a81a-4f84-8da0-a057953f714d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+