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IntroducedFeb 28, 2025
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Passed HouseJun 18, 2025
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Passed SenateJun 20, 2025
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Signed into LawJun 30, 2025
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HOUSING RESOURCES ACT OF 1998 (Amends the definition of affordable housing to create separate categories for housing using private or state financing as opposed to financing from the federal government.)
Last Action See all actions
executive • Jun 30, 2025: 06/30/2025 Signed by Governor
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Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 5956
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 66
- Abney
- Ackerman
- Ajello
- Alzate
- Azzinaro
- Baginski
- Batista
- Bennett
- Biah
- Blazejewski
- Boylan
- Brien
- Caldwell
- Carson
- Casey
- Casimiro
- Chippendale
- Cortvriend
- Corvese
- Cotter
- Craven
- Cruz
- Dawson
- DeSimone
- Diaz
- Donovan
- Felix
- Fellela
- Finkelman
- Fogarty
- Furtado
- Giraldo
- Handy
- Hopkins
- Hull
- Kazarian
- Kennedy
- Kislak
- Knight
- Lombardi
- Marszalkowski
- McEntee
- McGaw
- McNamara
- Messier
- Morales
- K. Joseph Shekarchi
- Newberry
- Noret
- O'Brien
- Paplauskas
- Phillips
- Place
- Potter
- Read
- Sanchez
- Serpa
- ShallcrossSmith
- Shanley
- Slater
- Solomon
- Speakman
- Spears
- Stewart
- Tanzi
- Voas
Actions
- Jun 30, 2025 | executive
- 06/30/2025 Signed by Governor
- Jun 25, 2025 | executive
- 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor
- Jun 20, 2025 | Senate
- 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence
- Jun 18, 2025 | Senate
- 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025)
- Jun 18, 2025 | House
- 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A
- Jun 17, 2025 | House
- 06/17/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A
- 06/17/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025)
- Jun 15, 2025 | House
- 06/15/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2025)
- 06/15/2025 Proposed Substitute
- Apr 02, 2025 | House
- 04/02/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- Mar 28, 2025 | House
- 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2025)
- Feb 28, 2025 | House
- 02/28/2025 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing
Bill Texts
Documents
- 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2025)
- 06/15/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2025)
- 06/17/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025)
- 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025)
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Brenda_Clement (Housing Works RI)--MGHPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Brenda_Clement (HousingWorksRI)--MGHPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Carla_DeStefano (SWAP)--mghPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Christian Belden, Ex. Director Church Community Housing CorpPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Jason_Martiesian (RIBC)--mghPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Jeffrey_Swanson (Valley Affordable Housing Corp)--mghPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--John_Marcantonio (RI Builders Assoc)--mghPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Marilyn CarlsonPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Melina_Lodge (Community Housing Land Trust of RI)--mghPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Sean_Daly(Peoples Credit Union)--MGHPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Sharon_Morris--MGHPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Stephen_Ostiguy--MGHPDF
- House Municipal Government and Housing: 04-02-2025--H5956--Trevor_Chasse (RI realtors)--mghPDF