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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MUNICIPAL POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION (Relieves municipal police and firefighter bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the 90 days prior to the events that caused the grievance.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MUNICIPAL POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION (Relieves municipal police and firefighter bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the 90 days prior to the events that caused the grievance.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 7377"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7377 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities & Towns", "Labor", "Municipal Employees", "Police & Fire"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Almeida", "Canario", "McEntee", "O'Brien", "Shekarchi"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-07-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df189d1c-879b-43b5-8ece-ff8884c2a036"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "c003278ba7df31bb33e9aab0f2c251d66669ea59249fda4b7f5af135bd254747"
+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 7377 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MUNICIPAL POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION (Relieves municipal police and firefighter bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the 90 days prior to the events that caused the grievance.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7377 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H7377A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Almeida — primary (person)
+- Canario — primary (person)
+- McEntee — primary (person)
+- O'Brien — primary (person)
+- Shekarchi — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** 01/31/2018 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** 02/19/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2018)
+- **2018-03-01** 03/01/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2018-05-25** 05/25/2018 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2018)
+- **2018-05-31** 05/31/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-01** 06/01/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/05/2018)
+- **2018-06-05** 06/05/2018 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2018-06-07** 06/07/2018 Referred to Senate Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-15** 06/15/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/19/2018)
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/21/2018)
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/df189d1c-879b-43b5-8ece-ff8884c2a036`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+