---
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: "SB 2974"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2974 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bissaillon", "Britto", "Cano", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "DiPalma", "Gallo", "Lauria", "Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-05"
last_action: "2024-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3f450f5-5c0e-478e-a731-c7b8d509dbe4"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "9eb27d63b524a8cc758e65304e4fdfba0ec42261d276aed8aabaa250bfe02515"
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 2974 (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. **2974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2974.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Britto — primary (person)
- Cano — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-05** 04/05/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/24/2024)
- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2024)
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House 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/c3f450f5-5c0e-478e-a731-c7b8d509dbe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).