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5/1/2023
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Senate Finance Committee meets twice this week for votes and to hear budget articles, legislation
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STATE HOUSE — The Senate Finance Committee will meet twice this week to vote on two bills and to hear testimony on budget articles and legislation.
The committee is chaired by Sen. Louis P. DiPalma (D-Dist. 12, Middletown, Little Compton, Newport, Tiverton).
On Tuesday, May 2 at the RISE of the Senate (approximately 5 p.m.) in Room 211 of the State House, the committee will hear testimony on Article 9, Sections 1 and 2, which relates to medical assistance.
The committee will also consider the following bills:
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2023-S 0056, sponsored by Sen. Dawn Euer (D-Dist. 13, Newport, Jamestown), provides a tax abatement of up to $2,000 to Jamestown firefighters based upon years of service, quantity of calls responded to and number of training hours and is transferrable to a surviving spouse until remarriage or death.
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2023-S 0223, sponsored by Sen. Alana M. DiMario (D-Dist. 36, Narragansett, North Kingstown, New Shoreham), allows anyone who rendered services as a correction officer to receive pension credit for service as a state or municipal employee.
Among the legislation being heard are the following bills:
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2023-S 0222, sponsored by Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski (D-Dist. 37, South Kingstown), provides that the current COLA suspension schedule would be replaced with a fractional annual COLA of 25 percent of the COLA declared for that plan year, as it pertains to retired teachers, state and municipal employees.
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2023-S 0508, sponsored by Chairman DiPalma, provides state employee public safety professionals with parity to municipal public safety employees in the state/municipal retirement systems effective July 1, 2023 with a 10 percent contribution.
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2023-S 0546, sponsored by Sen. Frank A. Ciccone (D-Dist. 7, Providence, Johnston), restores the COLA to state employees, and/or their beneficiaries, who retired prior to July 1, 2012.
On Thursday, May 4 at the RISE of the Senate (approximately 5 p.m.) in Room 211 of the State House, the committee will hear testimony on the FY 2023 Supplemental and FY 2024 budgets for Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The committee will also hear testimony on Article 9, Sections 3, 4, and 5, which relate to long-term care; Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics and the RI Medicaid Reform Act Resolution.
Among the legislation being heard are the following bills:
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2023-S 0207, sponsored by Sen. Bridget G. Valverde (D-Dist. 35, North Kingstown, East Greenwich, South Kingstown), makes the Medicaid rate increase permanent for the First Connections Family Home-Visiting Program and requires additional information to be added to the annual family home-visiting report.
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2023-S 0243, sponsored by Sen. Valarie J. Lawson (D-Dist. 14, East Providence), establishes the Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insurance contracts.
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2023-S 0256, sponsored by Sen. Victoria Gu (D-Dist. 38, Charlestown, Westerly, South Kingstown), increases the income eligibility limit for medical assistance coverage for seniors and disabled individuals from 100 percent to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
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2023-H 0528, sponsored by Sen. Robert Britto (D-Dist. 18, East Providence, Pawtucket), establishes a new personal income tax credit for individuals who incur expenses caring for a relative that requires assistance with one or more daily living activities as certified by a license physician.
The meetings will be streamed live online Via Capitol TV at
http://www.rilegislature.gov/CapTV/Pages/default.aspx.
For more information, contact:
Emily Martineau, Deputy Director of Communications for the Office of the Speaker
State House Room 323
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-2466
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