---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION"
description: "Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 987"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 987 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "DiPalma", "Gallo", "Lawson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-16"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fd2f7f8-1e7d-4b65-aa8f-f7abd4fe6a0c"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "20d8b56e960f7c6d1f2ceb6ab09e5f3e011d340c68135393b506eb52fa204515"
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 987 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- COUNCIL ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

Provide protection for the rights of professional, administrative and secretarial employees of the department of education to collectively bargain over all terms and conditions of employment.

## Version chain

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

1. **987** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0987.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–4** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-16** 04/16/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/07/2025)
- **2025-05-07** 05/07/2025 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`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 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/3fd2f7f8-1e7d-4b65-aa8f-f7abd4fe6a0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).