---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES (Requires default notices to lessees of self-service storage facilities to be sent to the lessee’s last known address, and would require and advertisement of the sale of personal property to be published once on a publicly accessible website.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES (Requires default notices to lessees of self-service storage facilities to be sent to the lessee’s last known address, and would require and advertisement of the sale of personal property to be published once on a publicly accessible website.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 5433"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5433 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advertising", "Computer Technology", "Property", "Public Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett", "Casey", "Costantino", "Hull", "J. Lombardi", "O'Brien", "Slater"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daed777c-623d-4850-8ce6-fb103c5fc312"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "989f2bc0df1bc252650394e3a41f75cc8c2c96cdd91ad48aa131df4b82603282"
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 5433 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES (Requires default notices to lessees of self-service storage facilities to be sent to the lessee’s last known address, and would require and advertisement of the sale of personal property to be published once on a publicly accessible website.)

## Version chain

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

1. **5433 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/HouseText23/H5433Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- AS AMENDED — **50–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Casey — primary (person)
- Costantino — primary (person)
- Hull — primary (person)
- J. Lombardi — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)
- Slater — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-08** 02/08/2023 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** 02/24/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/02/2023)
- **2023-03-02** 03/02/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-06-11** 06/11/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2023)
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/15/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-27** 06/27/2023 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/daed777c-623d-4850-8ce6-fb103c5fc312`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).