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---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES"
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 70 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Ciccone", "Kallman", "Mack", "Pearson", "Quezada", "Thompson", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7a35fc7-6e50-4b90-bcfb-7794c84de748"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "ac1fd4b84e38a0d3ad9c46b80222547273701e6e1cb72b574f634f44f191d500"
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 70 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES
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.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **70 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0070Aaa.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **646** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **350** (pass) · upper
- AS AMENDED — **658** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Acosta — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-23** 01/23/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor and Gaming `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`
- **2025-05-30** 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`
- **2025-06-08** 06/08/2025 Referred to House Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-08** 06/08/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2025)
- **2025-06-08** 06/08/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/b7a35fc7-6e50-4b90-bcfb-7794c84de748`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).