---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES"
description: "Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 123"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 123 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Burke", "Felag", "LaMountain", "McKenney", "Raptakis", "Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcf62eef-a37c-4d6a-95ca-3de558fce558"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "8b4cf34360a6e071f654f8b1cc66929086791676b216082aafd9f2bb52e96f33"
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 123 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES

Permits municipalities to enact ordinances that provide them the authority to organize local tax amnesty events once every three (3) years.

## Version chain

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

1. **123** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0123.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appollonio — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `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`
- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2025)
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcf62eef-a37c-4d6a-95ca-3de558fce558`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).