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The Rhode Island State House, where the House of Representatives on Friday evening was debating a record state budget proposal of $14.13 billion.
A companion bill will be introduced in the House by Rep. June Speakman, D-Warren, according to Reclaim Rhode Island. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Bill to tax 'house ...
Other bills in the package are slated for committee votes on Tuesday, on their way to potential votes by the full House on Thursday, ahead of the lawmakers' weeklong spring break.
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.
William John Murphy (born January 4, 1963) is an American attorney and was a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing the 26th District from 1993 to 2011. He served as the 221st Speaker of the House from January 7, 2003, to February 11, 2010, when he handed over the gavel to his majority leader, Gordon D. Fox.
A bill in the House would codify protections for the state's growing unhoused population, "adding teeth" to the 2012 Homeless Bill of Rights by creating penalties for violations, expanding ...
Morales is a supporter of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. [13] In May 2021, the RI House of Representatives passed a pathway to the $15 minimum wage which will gradually increase the minimum wage from its current $11.50 an hour to $15 by January 1, 2025.
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 ...