AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (Increases 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.)

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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:
Representatives Santucci, Hopkins, Nardone, Paplauskas, Chippendale,
Place, Roberts, and Fascia

Date Introduced:
February 12, 2026

Referred To:
House Finance
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
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SECTION 1. Section 45-21-54 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-21 entitled "Retirement
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of Municipal Employees" is hereby amended to read as follows:
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45-21-54. Reemployment of retired members.
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Any retired member of the system is permitted to reenter the service of the system for not
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more than
seventy-five (75)

ninety (90)
working days
or its equivalent of six hundred thirty (630)
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working hours
in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits. Pension payments,
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however, are suspended when that period is exceeded. This
seventy-five-day (75)

ninety-day (90)

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rule shall not apply to police officers, as defined in § 28-9.2-3, for the purposes of their working
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private details, paid for by a nongovernmental entity. If the retired member continues in service
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beyond the
seventy-five-day (75)

ninety (90) working day
period (with his or her annuity
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temporarily suspended) the member is not eligible for pension credit for the additional service, nor
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is the member required to make pension contributions for this service; provided, that any retired
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member of the system is permitted to serve as an elected city or town council member or school
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committee member and continues to be eligible for and receive the retirement allowance for service
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other than that as a council member or school committee member.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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EXPLANATION
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF
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
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calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days or its equivalent of six
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hundred thirty (630) hours.
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This act would take effect upon passage.
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