---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - REEMPLOYMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS (Exempts retired police officers from the seventy-five (75) day rule which restricts employment for retirement purposes, when they work private details for a nongovernmental entity.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - REEMPLOYMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS (Exempts retired police officers from the seventy-five (75) day rule which restricts employment for retirement purposes, when they work private details for a nongovernmental entity.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7645"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7645 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C Lima", "Corvese", "Fenton-Fung", "Hull", "McNamara", "Noret", "Phillips", "Serpa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bf95af7-b9f9-4878-b473-8c275ce68228"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f36d7aa69753c32a0eaf7913b40bf76ee1d5a51f79d4406716b8e64948d9bbb5"
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 7645 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - REEMPLOYMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS (Exempts retired police officers from the seventy-five (75) day rule which restricts employment for retirement purposes, when they work private details for a nongovernmental entity.)

## Version chain

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

1. **7645** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/HouseText22/H7645.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C Lima — primary (person)
- Corvese — primary (person)
- Fenton-Fung — primary (person)
- Hull — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)
- Noret — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Serpa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-02** 03/02/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-11** 03/11/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/15/2022)
- **2022-03-15** 03/15/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-06-05** 06/05/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
- **2022-06-07** 06/07/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-10** 06/10/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/14/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-14** 06/14/2022 House read and passed `passage`
- **2022-06-16** 06/16/2022 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/21/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-27** 06/27/2022 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/8bf95af7-b9f9-4878-b473-8c275ce68228`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).