---
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).