---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION"
description: "Creates a new class of retirement status license for retirees that had possessed a professional license issued by the department of labor and training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3138"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3138 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "Famiglietti", "Quezada", "Thompson", "Tikoian", "Urso"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-20"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/297f64e0-9945-4f8c-945f-de346fe4051d"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "80ec066e944ec4cb052470921e290a760afe308ada2c59b093f568269c29b393"
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 3138 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION

Creates a new class of retirement status license for retirees that had possessed a professional license issued by the department of labor and training.

## Version chain

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

1. **3138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S3138.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- Famiglietti — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Tikoian — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-20** 03/20/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-24** 04/24/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/29/2026)
- **2026-04-29** 04/29/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/26/2026)
- **2026-05-26** 05/26/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-26** 05/26/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/28/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-05-28** 05/28/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/04/2026) `reading-3`
- **2026-06-04** 06/04/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2026-06-04** 06/04/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 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/297f64e0-9945-4f8c-945f-de346fe4051d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).