---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Expands the definition of sales to include any license, lease, or rental of prewritten or vendor-hosted computer software and specified digital products. This act would also define \"end-user\" for specified digital products.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Expands the definition of sales to include any license, lease, or rental of prewritten or vendor-hosted computer software and specified digital products. This act would also define \"end-user\" for specified digital products.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 7532"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7532 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration", "Dept. of Revenue", "Licenses", "State Affairs", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abney", "Azzinaro", "Edwards", "Kennedy", "O'Brien"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-12"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f893e8f-c735-4607-aa55-2efbf1a32033"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "a1652e3b8154887683fd09dec58ecff70562bb558810d8e5f061ed7862501bfb"
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 7532 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- SALES AND USE TAXES -- LIABILITY AND COMPUTATION (Expands the definition of sales to include any license, lease, or rental of prewritten or vendor-hosted computer software and specified digital products. This act would also define "end-user" for specified digital products.)

## Version chain

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

1. **7532 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7532A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **64–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abney — primary (person)
- Azzinaro — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-12** 02/12/2020 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/11/2020)
- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on House Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2020)
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-24** 06/24/2020 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/3f893e8f-c735-4607-aa55-2efbf1a32033`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).