---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Provides employer pays any excess damages for an injured minor/clarifies liability of employer for violation of continuation of health care benefits for injured employee caused by employer/repeals obsolete/inapplicable workers' compensation laws.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Provides employer pays any excess damages for an injured minor/clarifies liability of employer for violation of continuation of health care benefits for injured employee caused by employer/repeals obsolete/inapplicable workers' compensation laws.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 6134"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6134 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health & Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Fellela", "McKiernan", "Millea", "Williams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-05-22"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a9cad59-aa57-4f8b-9548-f392da1aa594"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "1adaf243c517ac8c8d0a669a4a3100c9feff5ae5b5954fef221133cb0a2e066f"
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 HB 6134 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Provides employer pays any excess damages for an injured minor/clarifies liability of employer for violation of continuation of health care benefits for injured employee caused by employer/repeals obsolete/inapplicable workers' compensation laws.)

## Version chain

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

1. **6134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H6134.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alzate — primary (person)
- Fellela — primary (person)
- McKiernan — primary (person)
- Millea — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-22** 05/22/2019 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/29/2019)
- **2019-05-29** 05/29/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2019)
- **2019-06-12** 06/12/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 House read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 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/9a9cad59-aa57-4f8b-9548-f392da1aa594`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).