---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION"
description: "Provides tax credits or the equivalent assessment dollars to veterans, gold star parents, visually impaired persons and the elderly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 98 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be54a838-90ae-4e3a-9e02-0dd8b8a1f4bc"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "6cc507587a276bf69443f0e65d79d5e9aa82e4abac75f54e450463acd6cf7a0b"
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 98 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION

Provides tax credits or the equivalent assessment dollars to veterans, gold star parents, visually impaired persons and the elderly.

## Version chain

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

1. **98** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0098.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/24/2025)
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/06/2025)
- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/be54a838-90ae-4e3a-9e02-0dd8b8a1f4bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).