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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2026

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES

     Introduced By: Senators Rogers, and de la Cruz

     Date Introduced: February 13, 2026

     Referred To: Senate Finance

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 45-21-54 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-21 entitled "Retirement

of Municipal Employees" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     45-21-54. Reemployment of retired members.

     Any retired member of the system is permitted to reenter the service of the system for not

more than seventy-five (75) ninety (90) working days or its equivalent of six hundred thirty (630)

working hours in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits. Pension payments,

however, are suspended when that period is exceeded. This seventy-five-day (75) ninety-day (90)

rule shall not apply to police officers, as defined in § 28-9.2-3, for the purposes of their working

private details, paid for by a nongovernmental entity. If the retired member continues in service

beyond the seventy-five-day (75) ninety (90) working day period (with his or her annuity

temporarily suspended) the member is not eligible for pension credit for the additional service, nor

is the member required to make pension contributions for this service; provided, that any retired

member of the system is permitted to serve as an elected city or town council member or school

committee member and continues to be eligible for and receive the retirement allowance for service

other than that as a council member or school committee member.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES

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     This act would increase the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a

calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days or its equivalent of six

hundred thirty (630) hours.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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