---
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: "HB 5266"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5266 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azzinaro", "Corvese", "Craven", "Dawson", "Kennedy", "Kislak", "Noret", "O'Brien"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02e801a6-c608-4baa-90c8-d67a37f2d773"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "43ce2975c472282ddce97a7aeb27bfa8f3ac94cd45f83416c3e96f4ac1677422"
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 5266 (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. **5266** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5266.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **64–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Azzinaro — primary (person)
- Corvese — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Dawson — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Kislak — primary (person)
- Noret — primary (person)
- O'Brien — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to House Labor `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2025)
- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/05/2025)
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-09** 06/09/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-12** 06/12/2025 House read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate 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/02e801a6-c608-4baa-90c8-d67a37f2d773`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).