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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - RHODE ISLAND UNINSURED PROTECTION FUND (Provides that the provisions of § 28-53-7 which addresses payments from the uninsured protection fund to employees of uninsured employers, would apply to injuries that occur on or after September 1, 2019.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - RHODE ISLAND UNINSURED PROTECTION FUND (Provides that the provisions of § 28-53-7 which addresses payments from the uninsured protection fund to employees of uninsured employers, would apply to injuries that occur on or after September 1, 2019.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 242"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 242 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "Goodwin", "Lombardi", "Lombardo", "McCaffrey"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-31"
+last_action: "2019-03-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c21becec-473e-4280-8859-15a446c5e5ee"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "060c3dec1ea249cff97d6f63e7854e088a0aa325fb80a4c23d923151c088e667"
+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 242 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - RHODE ISLAND UNINSURED PROTECTION FUND (Provides that the provisions of § 28-53-7 which addresses payments from the uninsured protection fund to employees of uninsured employers, would apply to injuries that occur on or after September 1, 2019.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0242.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Goodwin — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Lombardo — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-31** 01/31/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** 02/01/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/06/2019)
+- **2019-02-06** 02/06/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-07** 02/07/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (02/13/2019)
+- **2019-02-13** 02/13/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-02-14** 02/14/2019 Referred to House Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-15** 02/15/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/27/2019)
+- **2019-02-27** 02/27/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-03-08** 03/08/2019 Scheduled for consideration (03/13/2019)
+- **2019-03-13** 03/13/2019 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** 03/15/2019 Placed on House Calendar (03/19/2019)
+- **2019-03-19** 03/19/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-03-27** 03/27/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-28** 03/28/2019 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/c21becec-473e-4280-8859-15a446c5e5ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+