---
type: Person
title: "Sam Bell"
description: "RI Senate District 5 — RI State Senate District 5"
role: "RI Senate District 5"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "RI"
district: "RI State Senate District 5"
represents: "us/states/ri/districts/senate/5"
tenure:
  start: "2019-01-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "9e1e4fde-35cf-4490-b04b-42cc899a9597"
  office: "87bc32e7-88bf-4bc2-932c-6e848653eac4"
  tenure: "6d27eb5b-5aba-4aa7-ba1a-abb8a79442b9"
  jurisdiction: "fb5c81dd-aaa8-407e-b2aa-f091e22d71ff"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ri]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Sam Bell

Current RI Senate District 5 (RI State Senate District 5).

Represents [RI State Senate District 5](/us/states/ri/districts/senate/5.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).