---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION -- CONTINUANCE OF CONTRACTUAL PROVISIONS (Requires that the contractual provisions contained in an otherwise expired collective bargaining agreement with certified school teachers and municipal employees would continue until a successor agreement has been reached between the parties.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION -- CONTINUANCE OF CONTRACTUAL PROVISIONS (Requires that the contractual provisions contained in an otherwise expired collective bargaining agreement with certified school teachers and municipal employees would continue until a successor agreement has been reached between the parties.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 512"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 512 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities & Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin", "Lawson", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/622ab6a7-008d-44c4-be37-7e28068a64ce"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "9f50a5afd717adf3500bb693e5da796f43e2b9d6bdc02c97b36af947e209df28"
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 512 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- ARBITRATION -- CONTINUANCE OF CONTRACTUAL PROVISIONS (Requires that the contractual provisions contained in an otherwise expired collective bargaining agreement with certified school teachers and municipal employees would continue until a successor agreement has been reached between the parties.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **512 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0512A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **59–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-27** 02/27/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-19** 04/19/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/24/2019)
- **2019-04-19** 04/19/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-04-24** 04/24/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-25** 04/25/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/01/2019)
- **2019-05-01** 05/01/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-05-02** 05/02/2019 Referred to House Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-03** 05/03/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/07/2019)
- **2019-05-07** 05/07/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-07** 05/07/2019 Placed on House Calendar (05/09/2019)
- **2019-05-09** 05/09/2019 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-05-09** 05/09/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-14** 05/14/2019 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/622ab6a7-008d-44c4-be37-7e28068a64ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).