---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION"
description: "Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 720"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 720 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Ciccone", "Felag", "Mack", "Quezada", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-07"
last_action: "2025-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f285dc6-61f1-4fb8-b212-c5eafeb23487"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a5f962c5945082ee0c353241290e8a469b9096929d1cf747cf5b10d9b67f3f5d"
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 720 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION

Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.

## Version chain

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

1. **720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0720.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **65–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `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`
- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/10/2025)
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** 04/11/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/01/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/06/2025)
- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-16** 05/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (05/22/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** 05/22/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-05-22** 05/22/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 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/0f285dc6-61f1-4fb8-b212-c5eafeb23487`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).