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4/27/2026
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Media Advisory: Committee to vote on bills from Speaker’s housing package Wednesday
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STATE HOUSE — The House Committee on Municipal Government and Housing will meet Wednesday to vote on several bills from Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi’s (D-Dist. 23, Warwick) nine-bill package of housing legislation.
The committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in the House Lounge on the second floor of the State House. The committee is scheduled to vote on several bills, including these from Speaker Shekarchi’s housing package:
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2026-H 8000 — This legislation introduced by Speaker Shekarchi would add a requirement to Rhode Island’s existing Homeless Bill of Rights that at least a 15-day notice be given to the individuals and families impacted by disbanding an encampment, subject to emergency and safety exceptions. The committee will also consider an amendment to the bill.
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2026-H 8009 — This legislation introduced by Rep. Joshua J. Giraldo (D-Dist. 56, Central Falls) would establish maximum parking requirements for multifamily housing in areas accessible by public transit. The committee will also consider an amendment to the bill.
The committee will also reconsider a bill from the Speaker’s housing package:
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2026-H 8006A — This legislation introduced by Rep. Scott A. Slater (D-Dist. 10, Providence) would provide limits on the tax rates for the new construction of residential rental units which include certain percentages of affordable housing in either new construction of adaptive reuse projects. The committee will also consider a new amendment to the bill.
The committee will also vote on the following bill:
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2026-H 7149 — This legislation introduced by Rep. Earl A. Read III (D-Dist. 26, Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick) would require that before any firefighter or police officer is eligible to receive benefits for illness or injury sustained off duty, they prove they had reasonable grounds to believe that an emergency existed that required immediate need of their assistance.
Written testimony must be submitted to HouseMunicipalGovernmentandHousing@rilegislature.gov. Testimony must include your name, the bill number, and your viewpoint, whether for, against, or neither. Sign-up sheets for in-person testimony will be available in the hearing room.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
For more information, contact:
Tristan Grau, Publicist
State House Room B20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.4935
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