---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS"
description: "Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5703"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5703 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Carson", "Cortvriend", "Cotter", "Donovan", "Fogarty", "McEntee", "Shallcross Smith", "Spears", "Tanzi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a589e10-373f-4414-80e5-238be8e53561"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "62ed1d3fd4391c0b616a1c3e87cdec06fd9973774332fe6cc9a9b2e4251c4820"
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 5703 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO THE KINGSTON WATER DISTRICT -- BONDS

Increases the maximum amount of the Kingston water district bonding authority from four million dollars ($4,000,000) to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).

## Version chain

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

1. **5703** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5703.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Carson — primary (person)
- Cortvriend — primary (person)
- Cotter — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Shallcross Smith — primary (person)
- Spears — primary (person)
- Tanzi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/04/2025)
- **2025-03-04** 03/04/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Scheduled for consideration (03/11/2025)
- **2025-03-11** 03/11/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Placed on House Calendar (03/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 House read and passed `passage`
- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Referred to Senate Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/01/2025)
- **2025-04-01** 04/01/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 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/6a589e10-373f-4414-80e5-238be8e53561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).