---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID"
description: "Expands the law on school lunch service contracts requirements that provides for payment to workers/aides for 180 days or the contract for the school year, exclusive of paid time off, including vacation days or other forms of compensatory time off."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 8174"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8174 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dawson", "O'Brien"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-04-12"
last_action: "2024-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2634ff85-d877-41c3-b690-8b1857652368"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "506a1b69e951774b2874f8e8befb72fdc17569dcb53739711cee09370d3a3c45"
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 8174 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- FEDERAL AID

Expands the law on school lunch service contracts requirements that provides for payment to workers/aides for 180 days or the contract for the school year, exclusive of paid time off, including vacation days or other forms of compensatory time off.

## Version chain

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

1. **8174** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H8174.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dawson — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-12** 04/12/2024 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/01/2024)
- **2024-05-01** 05/01/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-24** 06/24/2024 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/2634ff85-d877-41c3-b690-8b1857652368`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).