R.I. Gen. Laws § 43-4-18.1: Use of appropriate disability language.

The office of the law revision director is authorized and empowered to delete the words “the handicapped” and insert instead the words “people with disabilities”, delete the words “handicap person” or “handicapped person” and insert instead the words “person with disability”, and delete the word “handicap” and insert instead the word “disability” in any reenactment of the general laws.