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S2168 2026 -- S 2168 ======== LC003273 ======== STATE OF RHODE ISLAND IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2026 ____________ A N A C T RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES Introduced By: Senators Rogers, Patalano, E Morgan, de la Cruz, Ciccone, Tikoian, and McKenney Date Introduced: January 16, 2026 Referred To: Senate Labor & Gaming It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 1 SECTION 1. Section 45-21-54 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-21 entitled Retirement 2 of Municipal Employees is hereby amended to read as follows: 3 45-21-54. Reemployment of retired members. 4 Any retired member of the system is permitted to reenter the service of the system for not 5 more than seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year without interruption of pension 6 benefits. Pension payments, however, are suspended when that period is exceeded. This seventy- 7 five-day (75) rule shall not apply to police officers, as defined in § 28-9.2-3, or any peace officer 8 as defined in § 12-7-21, working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time school resource 9 officer, for the purposes of their working private details, paid for by a nongovernmental entity. If 10 the retired member continues in service beyond the seventy-five-day (75) period (with his or her 11 annuity temporarily suspended) the member is not eligible for pension credit for the additional 12 service, nor is the member required to make pension contributions for this service; provided, that 13 any retired member of the system is permitted to serve as an elected city or town council member 14 or school committee member and continues to be eligible for and receive the retirement allowance 15 for service other than that as a council member or school committee member. 16 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. ======== LC003273 ======== EXPLANATION BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF A N A C T RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- RETIREMENT OF MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES *** 1 This act would allow any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school, as a full or part- 2 time resource officer, to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year 3 and not have an interruption in their receipt of pension benefits. 4 This act would take effect upon passage. ======== LC003273 ======== LC003273 - Page 2 of 2
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