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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- TAX PREPARERS ACT OF 2013"
+description: "Provides penalties for tax preparers that purposefully mislead their clients or act as ghost preparers of tax returns and requires the tax administrator publish a list of tax preparers who have had their privileges to prepare returns revoked or suspended."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 7613"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7613 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Marszalkowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2026-02-11"
+last_action: "2026-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5bdd53e-e31f-4d86-8382-fa641733ea5f"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "73e5f46b30c068af0ff1c63ff58e3f1d8a8e102c6bd0e412713aab4b942810cc"
+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 HB 7613 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- TAX PREPARERS ACT OF 2013
+
+Provides penalties for tax preparers that purposefully mislead their clients or act as ghost preparers of tax returns and requires the tax administrator publish a list of tax preparers who have had their privileges to prepare returns revoked or suspended.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7613 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/HouseText26/H7613A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **66–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Marszalkowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-11** 02/11/2026 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-19** 02/19/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2026-02-23** 02/23/2026 Meeting postponed (02/24/2026)
+- **2026-02-27** 02/27/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/03/2026)
+- **2026-03-03** 03/03/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-04-03** 04/03/2026 Scheduled for consideration
+- **2026-04-06** 04/06/2026 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/07/2026)
+- **2026-04-03** 04/03/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2026-04-06** 04/06/2026 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (04/07/2026)
+- **2026-05-01** 05/01/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/05/2026)
+- **2026-05-04** 05/04/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2026-05-05** 05/05/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-05-10** 05/10/2026 Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-05-14** 05/14/2026 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Referred to Senate Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-05-29** 05/29/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2026)
+- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-16** 06/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-19** 06/19/2026 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/e5bdd53e-e31f-4d86-8382-fa641733ea5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+