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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Enables the city of East Providence to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for waiver of interest and penalties in an amount not to excide $10,000 on overdue real property tax payments.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Enables the city of East Providence to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for waiver of interest and penalties in an amount not to excide $10,000 on overdue real property tax payments.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 885"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 885 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "East Providence", "Interest", "Property", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britto", "Lauria", "Lawson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15a757c7-83f2-4e76-a584-d70a40b36929"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "371f2740987bfbb5fc8f93011d47dd84affe2c764518d1d84ecbc1938f1a4ba3"
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 885 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Enables the city of East Providence to offer tax amnesty for two (2) separate sixty (60) day periods for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for waiver of interest and penalties in an amount not to excide $10,000 on overdue real property tax payments.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **885** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0885.pdf)
## Votes
- LOCAL TAXES — **370** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **670** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Britto — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-03-30** 03/30/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-14** 04/14/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2023-04-17** 04/17/2023 Meeting postponed (04/20/2023)
- **2023-04-19** 04/19/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2023)
- **2023-04-27** 04/27/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** 05/04/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** 05/09/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-05-22** 05/22/2023 Placed on House Calendar (05/25/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** 05/25/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-05-25** 05/25/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** 05/31/2023 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/15a757c7-83f2-4e76-a584-d70a40b36929`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).