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RI HB 7442

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AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- INSPECTION OF PERSONNEL FILES

Rhode Island · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Expands the obligations of employers to create, maintain and retain their employees' personnel records, it requires that records be retained for at least 3 years after employee's termination. It also increases the financial penalties for each violation.

Introduced
2026-01-30
Status date
Latest action
2026-02-05 — 02/05/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • McEnteeprimary
  • Cravenprimary
  • Dawsonprimary
  • Tanziprimary
  • Batistaprimary
  • Spearsprimary
  • Shanleyprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-30

    01/30/2026 Introduced, referred to House Labor

    introduction,referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-30

    01/30/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/05/2026)

  3. 2026-02-05

    02/05/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

    committee-failure

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Related bills

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