US state regulation
Rhode Island
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Rhode Island - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 48/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 3 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 3
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 3 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Rhode Island sits in the ceiling tracker band at 48/100 with 3 enacted across 2/5 areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 48/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 3
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 3
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Rhode Island legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Rhode Island's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 3 Tracked rows in archive
- 3 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 48/100 Portal tracker score
- #21 Of 51 by volume
- #17 Of 51 by tracker score
- Florida Nearest volume peer 3 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Rhode Island's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Rhode Island is below the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Rhode Island enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 1 in 2017
Policy coverage
Rhode Island enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Rhode Island's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Rhode Island regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Rhode Island's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Rhode Island's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
73/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 3 tracked
69th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- B 48/100
76th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Rhode Island Minimum Wage
R.I. Gen. Laws 28-12-3 Effective: 2025-01-01Rhode Island minimum wage $15.00/hr (2025). Tipped workers: $3.89/hr.
Rhode Island TDI/TCI + Healthy and Safe Families Act
RIGL 28-41 / 28-57 Effective: 2018-07-01Rhode Island TCI: 6 weeks paid family leave at 60% wages. Temporary Disability Insurance covers own illness. Sick: 40 hrs/year.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Rhode Island
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Rhode Island (LIGHT · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Florida · LIGHT
Florida tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Rhode Island); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Maryland · LIGHT
Maryland tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Rhode Island); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Hawaii · LIGHT
Hawaii tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Rhode Island); tracker stamp LOWER vs MID.
District of Columbia · LIGHT
District of Columbia tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Rhode Island); tracker stamp LOWER vs MID.
Alaska (FLOOR score pole)
Alaska sits near Rhode Island on archive volume yet stamps FLOOR while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Rhode Island's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (2 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Rhode Island
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Rhode Island state-rule registry · 2024 Rhode Island: 3 tracked · 3 enacted · tracker 48/100 (LIGHT/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Rhode Island's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.