---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN (Permits the Middletown town council to choose the assessment date to be the baseline for its tax increment area.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN (Permits the Middletown town council to choose the assessment date to be the baseline for its tax increment area.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 8218"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8218 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Middletown", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mendonca", "Ruggiero"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-05-23"
last_action: "2018-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7eb1b0d-a7ed-4e33-9d76-549ed1aa4ca4"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "29dc0e3e2f4f4753ee510fb0845331eb33beaa5955748101171d1012f4c6d017"
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 8218 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN (Permits the Middletown town council to choose the assessment date to be the baseline for its tax increment area.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **8218** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H8218.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mendonca — primary (person)
- Ruggiero — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-23** 05/23/2018 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** 05/25/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2018)
- **2018-05-31** 05/31/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-02** 06/02/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2018)
- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-16** 06/16/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 House read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2018)
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-05** 07/05/2018 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/c7eb1b0d-a7ed-4e33-9d76-549ed1aa4ca4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).