republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-675.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - BENEFITS (Amends our worksharing law by allowing employers more flexibility in the reduction of work hours among its employees and by allowing more leeway on the start date of an adopted worksharing plan.)	AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - BENEFITS (Amends our worksharing law by allowing employers more flexibility in the reduction of work hours among its employees and by allowing more leeway on the start date of an adopted worksharing plan.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 675	Rhode Island SB 675 (2017)	bill	Dept. of Employment and Training Dept. of Labor Labor Employment Security	enacted	Felag Jabour Lombardi McCaffrey	1	14	2	2017-03-29	2017-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/f70a1727-48c0-4245-897b-bcaa1ed39836	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	f4fce22825c8c71d557228ae2158fd45757dedb06f7f82538d3865b6531c6fe2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 675 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - BENEFITS (Amends our worksharing law by allowing employers more flexibility in the reduction of work hours among its employees and by allowing more leeway on the start date of an adopted worksharing plan.)

Version chain

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

1. 675 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• IN CONCURRENCE — 70–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Felag — primary (person)
• Jabour — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)
• McCaffrey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-29 03/29/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-07 04/07/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2017)
• 2017-04-12 04/12/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-05-26 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
• 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-07 06/07/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2017)
• 2017-06-13 06/13/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-06-14 06/14/2017 Referred to House Labor referral-committee
• 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2017)
• 2017-06-21 06/21/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-24 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f70a1727-48c0-4245-897b-bcaa1ed39836. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).