---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION"
description: "Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 127"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 127 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "LaMountain", "Patalano"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a74c171f-4d64-44d1-88a8-c17747cdb3e8"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "c0acf9d24751200146e79755d60017183eb9a0574cf7b177a8a81c432eeddc44"
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 127 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CERTIFIED SCHOOL TEACHERS' ARBITRATION

Requires the employers of unionized public school teachers, municipal employees and state employees, to provide the union, at least once every 120 days, a list of all their employees in their union, as well as their personal and demographic information.

## Version chain

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

1. **127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0127.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **28–5** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/26/2025)
- **2025-03-26** 03/26/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/a74c171f-4d64-44d1-88a8-c17747cdb3e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).