Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo recently signed into law the Healthy and Safe Families and Workplaces Act (“Act”), which will require Rhode Island employers with 18 or more employees to provide paid sick and safe leave beginning on July 1, 2018.
Under the Act, employers with 18 or more employees in Rhode Island are required to allow their employees to accrue up to 24 hours (three days) of paid sick and safe leave beginning in calendar year 2018, increasing to up to 32 hours (four days) in 2019, and up to 40 hours (five days) starting in 2020.

You can read the text of the new law by going here:  http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H5413Baa.pdf