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legislation/us/states/ri/2024/hb-7029.md

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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS"
+description: "Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 7029"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7029 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Craven", "Dawson", "Fogarty", "McEntee", "Morales", "Noret", "O'Brien", "Phillips", "Serpa"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-05"
+last_action: "2024-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd8a3386-04b5-4b95-a55e-08b9e6ea93eb"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "1b83c9f04107cd320d31e1b8ea32e9339e9c29c9955f78ab0f61b7e6cafa0e25"
+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 7029 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS
+
+Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7029** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7029.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Caldwell — primary (person)
+- Craven — primary (person)
+- Dawson — primary (person)
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- McEntee — primary (person)
+- Morales — primary (person)
+- Noret — primary (person)
+- O'Brien — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Serpa — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-05** 01/05/2024 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2024)
+- **2024-04-25** 04/25/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-14** 06/14/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-26** 06/26/2024 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/dd8a3386-04b5-4b95-a55e-08b9e6ea93eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+