republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2944.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN (Permits the Middletown town council to choose the assessment date to be the baseline for its tax increment area.)	AN ACT RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN (Permits the Middletown town council to choose the assessment date to be the baseline for its tax increment area.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	SB 2944	Rhode Island SB 2944 (2018)	bill	Cities & Towns Middletown Taxation	enacted	DiPalma	1	9	2	2018-05-31	2018-07-05	openstates	ocd-bill/b0c29377-5496-4089-a7ec-b5b936537811	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	be0c4418c67ce8ccbb1cec62339d41094b16fadad2b4d4814d6143acc70cd4b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2944 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN (Permits the Middletown town council to choose the assessment date to be the baseline for its tax increment area.)

Version chain

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

1. 2944 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• DiPalma — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-31 05/31/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-08 06/08/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2018)
• 2018-06-13 06/13/2018 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-14 06/14/2018 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
• 2018-07-05 07/05/2018 Effective without Governor's signature became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0c29377-5496-4089-a7ec-b5b936537811. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).