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S T A T E O F R H O D E I S L A N D
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025
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A N A C T
RELATING TO TOWNS AN D CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES
Introduced By: Senators Rogers, Ciccone, LaMountain, DiPalma, Burke, Pearson,
McKenney, de la Cruz, E Morgan, and Paolino
Date Introduced: January 23, 2025
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 1
of Municipal Employees" is hereby amended to read as follows: 2
45-21-54. Reemployment of retired members. 3
Any retired member of the system is permitted to reenter the service of the system for not 4
more than seventy-five (75) ninety (90) working days in a calendar year without interruption of 5
pension benefits. Pension payments, however, are suspended when that period is exceeded. This 6
seventy-five-day (75) ninety (90) rule shall not apply to police officers, as defined in ยง 28-9.2-3, 7
for the purposes of their working private details, paid for by a nongovernmental entity. If the retired 8
member continues in service beyond the seventy-five-day (75) ninety (90) period (with his or her 9
annuity temporarily suspended) the member is not eligible for pension credit for the additional 10
service, nor is the member required to make pension contributions for this service; provided, that 11
any retired member of the system is permitted to serve as an elected city or town council member 12
or school committee member and continues to be eligible for and receive the retirement allowance 13
for service other than that as a council member or school committee member. 14
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 15
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EXPLANATION
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF
A N A C T
RELATING TO TOWNS AN D 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 1
calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days. 2
This act would take effect upon passage. 3
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