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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: "SB 2156"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2156 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bissaillon", "DiMario", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Gallo", "McKenney", "Murray", "Valverde", "Zurier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3d5f2ce-9c1d-4dab-b247-a2545072789c"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "3f9fdbe9625efeff47708d746fc798538b38ebbf201c8c7024e6f6a0a5399e9b"
+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 2156 (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. **2156** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2156.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+- Zurier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-24** 01/24/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-17** 05/17/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/23/2024)
+- **2024-05-23** 05/23/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2024)
+- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 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/d3d5f2ce-9c1d-4dab-b247-a2545072789c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+