---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT (Eliminates the requirement that a member of the labor relations board not be a holder of any other public office.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT (Eliminates the requirement that a member of the labor relations board not be a holder of any other public office.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 2652"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2652 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "McCaffrey", "Murray", "Picard", "Ruggerio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-10"
last_action: "2022-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58fd2ea4-e70d-4908-94a1-86bff5f18874"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "281b3bcd9012eedfa475e0c2bec9e87af4450d43721550c63c21448b52fd9724"
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 2652 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT (Eliminates the requirement that a member of the labor relations board not be a holder of any other public office.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2652** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/SenateText22/S2652.pdf)

## Votes

- ACT — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **56–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Picard — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-10** 03/10/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25** 03/25/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2022)
- **2022-03-29** 03/29/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-06-03** 06/03/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2022)
- **2022-06-07** 06/07/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** 06/09/2022 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-14** 06/14/2022 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2022-06-20** 06/20/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-27** 06/27/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-07-05** 07/05/2022 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/58fd2ea4-e70d-4908-94a1-86bff5f18874`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).