---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS"
description: "Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7029"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7029 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Craven", "Dawson", "Fogarty", "McEntee", "Morales", "Noret", "O'Brien", "Phillips", "Serpa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd8a3386-04b5-4b95-a55e-08b9e6ea93eb"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "1b83c9f04107cd320d31e1b8ea32e9339e9c29c9955f78ab0f61b7e6cafa0e25"
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 7029 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- RETIREMENT SYSTEM -- CONTRIBUTION AND BENEFITS

Increases the maximum post retirement employment earnings from eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a year for certain retired educators.

## Version chain

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

1. **7029** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7029.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** 01/05/2024 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2024)
- **2024-04-25** 04/25/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-14** 06/14/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-26** 06/26/2024 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/dd8a3386-04b5-4b95-a55e-08b9e6ea93eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).