---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 5195"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5195 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Correctional Institutions", "Municipal Employees", "Retirement", "State Employees", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Craven", "Dawson", "Knight", "McEntee", "Morales", "O'Brien", "Phillips", "Serpa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38f0b0bb-4cf2-49b8-9a43-15a25d6d4603"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f4e811cd316781d6ba9cbf5e65810147ba38b31a23d9cfe892177cdb89cf7c2c"
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 5195 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT (Allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.)

## Version chain

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

1. **5195** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/HouseText23/H5195.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Dawson — primary (person)
- Knight — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Morales — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Serpa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** 01/19/2023 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/18/2023)
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2023)
- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-09** 06/09/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 House read and passed `passage`
- **2023-06-12** 06/12/2023 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/14/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-06-15** 06/15/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-23** 06/23/2023 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/38f0b0bb-4cf2-49b8-9a43-15a25d6d4603`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).