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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES"
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description: "Requires employer, at the start of employment, furnish to their employees a written notice containing employment information relative to wages, rates of pay, allowances, benefits, deductions from pay, and identifying information relative to the employer."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
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legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 70"
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citation: "Rhode Island SB 70 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Ciccone", "Kallman", "Mack", "Pearson", "Quezada", "Thompson", "Vargas"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-01-23"
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last_action: "2025-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7a35fc7-6e50-4b90-bcfb-7794c84de748"
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source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
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source_hash: "ac1fd4b84e38a0d3ad9c46b80222547273701e6e1cb72b574f634f44f191d500"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
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---
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# Rhode Island SB 70 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES
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Requires employer, at the start of employment, furnish to their employees a written notice containing employment information relative to wages, rates of pay, allowances, benefits, deductions from pay, and identifying information relative to the employer.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **70 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0070Aaa.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **64–6** (pass) · upper
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- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- AS AMENDED — **65–8** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Acosta — primary (person)
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- Ciccone — primary (person)
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- Kallman — primary (person)
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- Mack — primary (person)
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- Pearson — primary (person)
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- Quezada — primary (person)
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- Thompson — primary (person)
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- Vargas — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-23** 01/23/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2025)
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- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
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- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
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- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
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- **2025-06-08** 06/08/2025 Referred to House Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-08** 06/08/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
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- **2025-06-08** 06/08/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
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- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
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- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7a35fc7-6e50-4b90-bcfb-7794c84de748`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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