---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY EXEMPTION (Exempts the North Kingstown, Exeter Animal Protection League, Inc., from taxation in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY EXEMPTION (Exempts the North Kingstown, Exeter Animal Protection League, Inc., from taxation in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 3005"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3005 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["North Kingstown", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sheehan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-23"
last_action: "2018-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e40c9c35-9bf9-4e61-a5c2-58255bf2d577"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "499bfdcb9f8a910a96a0f6ffda13b3a34e474445a399b70707dfd3f8f0472a63"
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 3005 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY EXEMPTION (Exempts the North Kingstown, Exeter Animal Protection League, Inc., from taxation in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)

## Version chain

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

1. **3005** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S3005.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **53–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sheehan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 House 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/e40c9c35-9bf9-4e61-a5c2-58255bf2d577`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).