---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION (Allows the Tiverton town council to grant, by ordinance, property tax credits and removes the current property assessment value-based tax exemptions for veterans, gold star parents and visually impaired persons.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION (Allows the Tiverton town council to grant, by ordinance, property tax credits and removes the current property assessment value-based tax exemptions for veterans, gold star parents and visually impaired persons.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2382"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2382 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs", "Property", "Taxation", "Tiverton", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiPalma", "Felag", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/016cdec9-6eb1-4739-825e-8e37cfae6959"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "b6850a81d484382f0dc63de21cd0715efb6363a736ad0279f980ac0e1db611dd"
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 2382 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION (Allows the Tiverton town council to grant, by ordinance, property tax credits and removes the current property assessment value-based tax exemptions for veterans, gold star parents and visually impaired persons.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2382** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2382.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** 02/15/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-24** 04/24/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/26/2018)
- **2018-04-26** 04/26/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-01** 05/01/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2018)
- **2018-05-03** 05/03/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-05-04** 05/04/2018 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-02** 06/02/2018 Committee transferred to House Municipal Government
- **2018-06-02** 06/02/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2018)
- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-08** 06/08/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2018)
- **2018-06-12** 06/12/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-12** 06/12/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 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/016cdec9-6eb1-4739-825e-8e37cfae6959`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).