---
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: "SB 2485"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2485 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "F Lombardi", "Gallo", "Lombardo", "McCaffrey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-01"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40bbe526-5939-4f23-ad34-d50485d49cdc"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "2a98a64bd60cb11cd541a2c4773f785b19c2d5acfdaedcd184912da9fd565bcc"
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 2485 (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. **2485** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2485.pdf)

## Votes

- -REEMPLOYMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **59–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- F Lombardi — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-01** 03/01/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-11** 03/11/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/16/2022)
- **2022-03-16** 03/16/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-05-06** 05/06/2022 Scheduled for consideration (05/11/2022)
- **2022-05-11** 05/11/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** 05/12/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/17/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** 05/17/2022 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2022-05-18** 05/18/2022 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** 06/06/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2022)
- **2022-06-08** 06/08/2022 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-15** 06/15/2022 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-17** 06/17/2022 House 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/40bbe526-5939-4f23-ad34-d50485d49cdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).