republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2942.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Authorizes Newport to set the effective tax rate applicable to any property class in an amount not to exceed by 50% the rate applicable to any other class in the first year following a comprehensive revaluation or any update.)	AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Authorizes Newport to set the effective tax rate applicable to any property class in an amount not to exceed by 50% the rate applicable to any other class in the first year following a comprehensive revaluation or any update.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	SB 2942	Rhode Island SB 2942 (2018)	bill	Cities & Towns Newport Property	enacted	Euer	1	9	2	2018-05-31	2018-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/26d9ede2-8ec8-41a1-9e68-26389a88fc3e	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	f9c62cb302fc024e155148de45ef60c473cb9c30dc7d16055d0301d21d6e3203	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2942 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Authorizes Newport to set the effective tax rate applicable to any property class in an amount not to exceed by 50% the rate applicable to any other class in the first year following a comprehensive revaluation or any update.)

Version chain

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

1. 2942 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• IN CONCURRENCE — 69–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Euer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-31 05/31/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-08 06/08/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/12/2018)
• 2018-06-12 06/12/2018 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-13 06/13/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
• 2018-06-19 06/19/2018 Senate read and passed passage
• 2018-06-21 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
• 2018-06-22 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2018-06-27 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-28 06/28/2018 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26d9ede2-8ec8-41a1-9e68-26389a88fc3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).