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6/2/2025
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Media Advisory: House Labor Committee to vote on minimum wage bill
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STATE HOUSE – The House Labor Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow to vote on legislation to raise the minimum wage.
The meeting is scheduled tomorrow Tuesday, June 3, at the rise of the House session (sometime after 4:30 p.m.) in Room 135 on the first floor of the State House.
The committee is scheduled to consider legislation (2025-H 5029) sponsored by Rep. David A. Bennett (D-Dist. 20, Warwick, Cranston) to raise the minimum wage beginning next year. The committee will consider an amendment that would result in the bill raising minimum wage to $16 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2026, and $17 effective Jan. 1, 2027.
The meeting will be televised on Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
For more information, contact:
Larry Berman, Communications Director for the Office of the Speaker
State House Room 322
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-2466
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