Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.

Also relevant to:Low-income / working-class Union member / worker W-2 worker (non-union)

Where it is in the process

Plain-English Summary

LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES -- OVERTIME - Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.

Source: OpenStates · fetched May 6, 2026

Votes

Sponsorship · 9 Sponsors

Democrat9Republican0Independent0Other0

D · PrimeMeghan Kallman
D · CoFrank Ciccone
D · CoJohn Burke
D · CoSusan Sosnowski
D · CoDawn Euer
D · CoRobert Britto
D · CoLori Urso
D · CoBrian Thompson
D · CoAndrew Dimitri

Read full bill text →↓ Why am I seeing this?

Want updates?

Get notified when RI S2166 moves stage

Pick a channel below. Every option is opt-in, and we tell you exactly what we store.

Email

Identified

We store your email address and the bill ID. We'll send a confirmation link first; alerts only start after you click it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Coming soon

RSS feed· Atom 1.0 + JSON Feed per bill
Bluesky· follow a CivicRadar bot post per status change
Telegram· channel or DM via bot
Discord· channel webhook
WhatsApp· via WhatsApp Business
SMS· via Twilio