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6/5/2024
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MEDIA ADVISORY: House Judiciary Committee meets tomorrow for several votes
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STATE HOUSE – The House Judiciary Committee will meet tomorrow, Thursday, June 6 at the rise of the House (approximately 6 p.m.) in the House Lounge to vote on several bills.
The following pieces of legislation are scheduled for a vote:
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2024-H 7646, 2024-S 3044, sponsored by Rep. Alex D. Marszalkowski (D-Dist. 52, Cumberland) and Sen. Frank S. Lombardi (D-Dist. 26, Cranston), amends the definition of “authorized representative” in the Confidentiality of Health Care Communications/Information Act and provides that an authorized representative may include any heir-at-law when the patient is deceased/the personal representative is absent.
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2024-H 7741, sponsored by Rep. Evan P. Shanley (D-Dist. 24, Warwick, East Greenwich), criminalizes the filing of a false lien, instrument, or encumbrance against a federal, state, or municipal judge or magistrate or his or her immediate family, and permits the court to act to mitigate the negative consequences of such a filing.
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2024-H 7976A, sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman Robert E. Craven (D-Dist. 32, North Kingstown), updates the process by which the Supreme Court reports, holds, and escheats unclaimed property in the court registries.
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2024-H 8324, sponsored by Chairman Craven, would provide for a 12-member bipartisan commission to assemble information on constitutional questions in preparation for a vote by electors on holding a constitutional convention, and who would report back by September 1, 2024.
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2024-H 8326, sponsored by Chairman Craven, would provide for the presentation of the following question at the next general election, “Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the Constitution?”
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2024-H 8325, sponsored by Majority Leader Christopher R. Blazejewski (D-Dist. 2, Providence), makes technical amendments to the General Laws prepared at the recommendation of the Law Revision Office.
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:
Larry Berman, Communications Director for the Office of the Speaker
State House Room 322
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-2466
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