| RI | S0126 | Engross
50% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion, as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding politic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
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| RI | H6066 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Includes siblings, grandchildren, and care recipient in the coverage for temporary caregiver benefits and increases the taxable wage base upon which employees make co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
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| RI | H6161 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES - Updates and expands the current law to include menopause and menopause related conditions in the law on fair employment practices pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
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| RI | H5678 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
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| RI | H5680 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- BENEFITS - Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
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| RI | H5448 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Eliminates the "until June 30, 2025" sunset on the increase in the total amount of earnings a partial-unemployment insurance claimant can receive before being entirely disqualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
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| RI | H5946 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Prohibits the restriction of access in and out of a construction site by using locked gates or fences while work is ongoing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
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| RI | H5266 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION - Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5134 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL POLICE ARBITRATION - Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5944 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Defines employees as individuals employed by a municipality or state covered by a collective bargaining agreement or employment contract, and would redefine an "employer" to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5135 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparison...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5228 | Intro
25% | BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- QUALITY SELF-DIRECTED SUPPORTS ACT OF 2025 - Ensures that more developmentally disabled adults can self-direct the care they need and want, by incorporating collective bargaining righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5506 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYEES' FREE SPEECH IN WORKPLACE - Protects employees' rights in the workplace concerning political and religious matters, by creating a civil action that may provide damages and attorneys' fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5227 | Intro
25% | EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5133 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION - Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been render...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5942 | Intro
25% | FOOD AND DRUGS -- SANITATION IN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS - Establishes a restricted receipt account at the DLT for hospitality industry workforce training grants, funded by an annual $50 dollar fee to be charged by RIDOH to food service establishments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
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| RI | H5681 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC OFFICERS -- MERIT SYSTEM - Allows for waiver from testing for temporary or emergency positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5684 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5940 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE RHODE ISLAND OPPORTUNITY FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP ACT - Creates RI opportunity for employee ownership, worker gets notice within seven days of sale of business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5945 | Intro
25% | PUBIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MERIT SYSTEM - Provides for the creation of a new job classification for new or existing specialized information technology positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5682 | Intro
25% | CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5683 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises from 15% to 20% and of that, requires a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and a minimum of 10% be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H6065 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND BONE MARROW AND ORGAN DONOR LEAVE ACT - Mandates paid leave by allowing qualified employees to take medical leave to undergo donation procedures, medical tests, and recovery related to being a living organ do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5941 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PORTABLE BENEFIT PLAN - Establishes the portable benefit plan for independent contractors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
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| RI | H5508 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Provides that commencing January 1, 2026, the minimum wage shall be twenty-two dollars ($22.00) per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5507 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Gradually increases the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5679 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5943 | Intro
25% | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- HOLIDAY BUSINESS - Provides all employees of retail establishments with 15 or more employees engaged in work during Sundays or holidays shall receive from their employer no less than time and a half and shall be guarante...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5029 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2026 at $16 per hour, 2027 at $17 per hour, 2028 at $18 per hour, 2029 at $19 per hour and for 2030 at $20 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5939 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES -- FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT - Eliminate all exceptions to the provision that all employees are to be paid weekly except for employees of the state and its political subdivisions, municipal governments, and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5304 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- THE COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS ACT - Establishes the commuter transportation benefit chapter. Employers with five hundred (500) or more employees would be required to establish a pre-tax commuter transportation frin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5685 | Intro
25% | HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- WORK ON HOLIDAYS AND SUNDAYS - Allows casino workers to receive overtime pay for working Sundays and Holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5505 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits payments in lieu of pension benefits to person employed more than ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
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| RI | H5047 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employers to provide each employee of a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, with written description of quotas applicable to the employee within defined time periods and ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5366 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5187 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Expands the definition of "employee". Also modifies how the state's labor relations board operates and aids in enforcement of the board's orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5305 | Intro
25% | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH - Requires employers to protect employees from extreme temperatures through rest breaks, PPE, training, and equipment, and mandates quarterly supervisor training, to recognize and mitigate heat- an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5188 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. This act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5132 | Intro
25% | LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Prohibits psychological abuse in the workplace by employers or co-workers, ensuring a safe environment for employees, provides protection, civil remedies, and penalties for employers b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5028 | Intro
25% | PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Amends the definition of public works so that it would include any public works projects performed for any city or town or quasi-municipal entity and the state and any quasi-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5367 | Intro
25% | House Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study The Manner In Which Health Insurance, Disability Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Retirement Plans And Other Traditional Employer Provided Benefits Are Accorded To Uber And Lyft Dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| RI | H5073 | Intro
25% | STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- PEACE OFFICER MAXIMUM WORKDAY AND OVERTIME COMPENSATION - Establishes a maximum hourly workday for all peace officers as defined in ยง 12-7-21 and a violation rate of pay of double time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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