---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION"
description: "Exempts certain urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. This act would also define urban and small farmers and urban farmland."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2827"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2827 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiPalma", "Mack", "Sosnowski", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-04"
last_action: "2026-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec3cb6d1-a5a4-4acc-a688-47e2b826f1bc"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "c595bd27dac98675c141a37af09bb359315a597b14e3bdc791ee8807d7815877"
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 2827 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION

Exempts certain urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. This act would also define urban and small farmers and urban farmland.

## Version chain

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

1. **2827** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2827.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **60–9** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-04** 03/04/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-05-15** 05/15/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2026)
- **2026-05-19** 05/19/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2026-05-29** 05/29/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2026)
- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/09/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed 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/ec3cb6d1-a5a4-4acc-a688-47e2b826f1bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).