Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
1 instrument in Rhode Island. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
Both acts amended subdivision (a)(1)(x) of 44-3-4, the Smithfield veterans property tax exemption. Chapter 168 sets it at $10,000. Chapter 179 sets it at $4,000 and adds that from July 1, 2016 the town council may provide up to $10,000. Neither repealed the other and the statute still prints both versions of the same subdivision, each with its own bracketed note. This is tracked because the catalog cannot state a single Smithfield figure from the statute, and because it is the clearest illustration of why every Rhode Island property tax figure has to be confirmed with the local assessor.
A bill moves when the people who vote on it hear from the people it affects. Enter your address to see who represents you in Congress and in your state legislature, and where to get free, accredited help with a VA claim: your county veterans service officer or town veterans’ agent, and your state’s service offices.