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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MUNICIPAL POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION (Relieves municipal police bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the ninety (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 bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the ninety (90) days prior to the events that caused the grievance.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 2158"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2158 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Labor", "Municipal Employees", "Police & Fire"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Calkin", "Coyne", "DiPalma", "Lombardi", "Seveney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-23"
+last_action: "2018-07-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b524fd17-2498-4200-8d88-b3e128dfdca7"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "48f2e0a9bbd6dd9001413e6727d424123e98119d6d89227e9c45120cc9548849"
+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 2158 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- MUNICIPAL POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS' ARBITRATION (Relieves municipal police bargaining representatives from their obligation to represent employees in grievances/arbitrations if they were not members of the bargaining unit within the ninety (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. **2158 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2158A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Calkin — primary (person)
+- Coyne — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Seveney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-23** 01/23/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-06** 04/06/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/11/2018)
+- **2018-04-11** 04/11/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2018-06-08** 06/08/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2018)
+- **2018-06-13** 06/13/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-14** 06/14/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/19/2018)
+- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
+- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House 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/b524fd17-2498-4200-8d88-b3e128dfdca7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+