---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2481"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2481 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bell", "Cano", "Kallman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-01"
last_action: "2022-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9feee5a-5770-40f0-8535-dd691260029c"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "239c2eaece47d2456e087eaa3ee4c7f48031834cb09cd341d4452d63747c0d78"
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 2481 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends membership of the RI Housing Resources Act of 1998 Commission to exclude a representative of the insurers and replace it with a representative of a Rhode Island city or town with a population below 25,000 with a median family income of 40,000.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2481 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2481A.pdf)

## Votes

- HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **61–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Bell — primary (person)
- Cano — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-01** 03/01/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-18** 06/18/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2022)
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-28** 06/28/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-07-06** 07/06/2022 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/c9feee5a-5770-40f0-8535-dd691260029c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).