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A detailed analysis of why Rhode Island's House speaker and Senate president hold so much power can be found in a 2014 cover story by Philip Eil in the Providence Phoenix, titled "The Seat of ...
The shooting death of 16-year-old Dillon Viens in February 2022 was not the only potentially preventable tragedy that led the Rhode Island House on Tuesday to vote 45-to-23 for legislation ...
The Rhode Island State House, where the House of Representatives on Friday evening was debating a record state budget proposal of $14.13 billion. Extending the lead-paint registration requirement
In 2021, Morales introduced and passed House Bill 6208 which limits the amount insurance companies can charge customers for out-of-pocket costs relating to COVID-19. It also mandates that COVID-19 testing and vaccination be free for Rhode Island residents. [19]
House Judiciary Chairman Robert Craven acknowledged the legislation introduced by Rep. Joseph Solomon that was up for a vote Tuesday was a response to the "blowback" to last year's move.
The bill was introduced to the Rhode Island House of Representatives, but the Judiciary Committee defeated it. [8] In May 2011, a bill to legalize civil unions was introduced to the Rhode Island General Assembly. [9] On May 19, 2011, the bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 62–11, with two representatives not voting.
The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, the upper house being the Rhode Island Senate. It is composed of 75 members, elected to two-year terms from 75 districts of equal population.
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island House has approved a proposed rewrite of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights – long blamed as an obstacle to the firing of bad cops.. Approved on a 58-to ...