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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION--BENEFITS (Repeals a provision of the workers' compensation law that provides that for injuries on and after July 1, 2023, "material hindrance" includes only compensable injuries causing a greater than sixty-five percent (65%) degree of functional impairment.) AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION--BENEFITS (Repeals a provision of the workers' compensation law that provides that for injuries on and after July 1, 2023, "material hindrance" includes only compensable injuries causing a greater than sixty-five percent (65%) degree of functional impairment.) us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2017 SB 917 Rhode Island SB 917 (2017)
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Rhode Island SB 917 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION--BENEFITS (Repeals a provision of the workers' compensation law that provides that for injuries on and after July 1, 2023, "material hindrance" includes only compensable injuries causing a greater than sixty-five percent (65%) degree of functional impairment.)

Version chain

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

  1. 917 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • IN CONCURRENCE — 680 (pass) · legislature
  • WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFITS — 340 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Fogarty — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-05-25 05/25/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor referral-committee, introduction
  • 2017-05-26 05/26/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/31/2017)
  • 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
  • 2017-05-31 05/31/2017 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
  • 2017-06-16 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2017)
  • 2017-06-21 06/21/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-06-21 06/21/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2017)
  • 2017-06-28 06/28/2017 Senate passed Sub A passage
  • 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/29/2017)
  • 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
  • 2017-07-19 07/19/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2017-07-21 07/21/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b804403c-11cf-4add-8be3-5e15ffeb44c4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).