---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- COLLECTION OF TAXES GENERALLY"
description: "Allows municipalities that issue tax bills via mail to develop programs to provide adequate notice through other digital means."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2639"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2639 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Britto", "Burke", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Felag", "LaMountain", "Lauria", "Lawson", "McKenney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdd90785-47ca-4dcf-a1e3-7a742d81924a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "8dc0b16140a306ba8170d043f5e7c42b47e21c6eac14cdcbe21b021a728b92b8"
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 2639 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- COLLECTION OF TAXES GENERALLY

Allows municipalities that issue tax bills via mail to develop programs to provide adequate notice through other digital means.

## Version chain

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

1. **2639** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2639.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Britto — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-22** 03/22/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/28/2024)
- **2024-03-28** 03/28/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-05-28** 05/28/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2024)
- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-24** 06/24/2024 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/fdd90785-47ca-4dcf-a1e3-7a742d81924a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).