---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT CLERKS' INCENTIVE PAY"
description: "Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal § 8-4.1-6 regarding additional credit for a master's degree."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 957"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 957 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Burke", "Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Dimitri", "LaMountain", "McKenney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/337a12e1-c405-49f3-b88b-1aa0b8b4555a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "12d7b830abd46f2dc7812ac881e25fc99e527b13609dffe9192e2a15e169c9ca"
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 957 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT CLERKS' INCENTIVE PAY

Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks, including the traffic tribunal, who meet the eligibility requirements. It would also repeal § 8-4.1-6 regarding additional credit for a master's degree.

## Version chain

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

1. **957** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0957.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **54–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/23/2025)
- **2025-04-25** 04/25/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/30/2025)
- **2025-04-30** 04/30/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/06/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** 05/06/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-05-07** 05/07/2025 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Committee transferred to House Finance
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/03/2025)
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-03** 07/03/2025 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/337a12e1-c405-49f3-b88b-1aa0b8b4555a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).