§ 40-8.15-6. Duty to represent all individual providers fairly — Deduction of membership dues and other voluntary deductions.
(a) A provider organization certified as the provider representative shall represent all individual providers in the state fairly and without discrimination, without regard to whether or not the individual provider is a member of the provider organization.
(b) Each individual provider may choose whether to be a member of the provider organization. The state, or its designee, shall deduct from payments to care providers membership dues for individual providers who elect to become members and authorize the deduction of membership dues, and any other voluntary deductions authorized by individual providers.
History of Section.P.L. 2018, ch. 106, § 2; P.L. 2018, ch. 110, § 2.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 40-8.15 - Individual Providers of Direct-Support Services
Section 40-8.15-1. - Definitions.
Section 40-8.15-3. - Good-faith negotiations.
Section 40-8.15-4. - Unresolved issues — Impasse procedures.
Section 40-8.15-5. - Economic aspects of contract subject to legislative appropriation.
Section 40-8.15-7. - Certification and decertification of provider organization.
Section 40-8.15-8. - Unfair practices.
Section 40-8.15-9. - Individual providers not state employees.
Section 40-8.15-10. - Right of families to select, direct, and terminate individual providers.
Section 40-8.15-11. - Strikes not authorized.