---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 223"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 223 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Correctional Institutions", "Education", "Municipal Employees", "Retirement", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "DiMario", "Euer", "F. Lombardi", "LaMountain", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Murray", "Quezada", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bae3634f-94d3-4abf-bf17-3f8af49cae0a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f3aa1e830a8669d75f8682d739599f689e23fa027ddbaa92b95ab580b1ff66dc"
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 223 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.)

## Version chain

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

1. **223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0223.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- F. Lombardi — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** 02/16/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** 03/31/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/04/2023)
- **2023-04-04** 04/04/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-04-28** 04/28/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/02/2023)
- **2023-05-02** 05/02/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-05-26** 05/26/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2023)
- **2023-05-30** 05/30/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-30** 05/30/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-06-09** 06/09/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-23** 06/23/2023 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bae3634f-94d3-4abf-bf17-3f8af49cae0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).