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The budget passed on a 69-to-5 vote with several of the Republicans who voted against it ... The Rhode Island State House, where the House of Representatives on Friday evening was debating a ...
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 ...
Rep. Julie Casimiro, a North Kingstown Democrat, is seen during a hearing of the Rhode Island House Committee on Innovation, Internet and Technology on Feb. 11, 2025.
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. [14] In the 2021 legislative session, Morales introduced several bills related to labor rights.
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.
Just past 1:30 a.m. Friday, Rhode Island's part-time lawmakers closed up shop for the year after a nine-hour blur of final votes. Here's what to know.
The State of Rhode Island General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. A bicameral body, it is composed of the lower Rhode Island House of Representatives with 75 representatives, and the upper Rhode Island Senate with 38 senators. Members are elected in the general election immediately preceding the beginning of ...