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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: "SB 2810"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2810 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "DiPalma", "Lawson", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-04"
last_action: "2026-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ccf5fe1-a84e-4a99-be07-790d4f75e499"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "a412699ef6d886c26ade0a510a657662a9e254995291a232c62615079dd86702"
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 2810 (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. **2810 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2810A.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **380** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **663** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- DiMario — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Vargas — 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`
- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/26/2026)
- **2026-05-26** 05/26/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2026-05-29** 05/29/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2026)
- **2026-06-01** 06/01/2026 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `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 passed Sub A `passage`
- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 House 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/6ccf5fe1-a84e-4a99-be07-790d4f75e499`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).