Representative Raymond A. Hull
Deputy Speaker
Member, House Finance Committee
Member, House Municipal Government and Housing Committee
Member, House Veterans' Affairs Committee
Raymond A. Hull (D) has served the residents of District 6 in Providence and North Providence since first being elected in November 2010. Representative Hull was appointed Deputy Speaker in January 2023. He is a member of the House Finance Committee, the House Municipal Government and Housing Committee, and the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.
In 2024, Deputy Speaker Hull introduced the Law Enforcement Officers' Due Process, Accountability and Transparency Act, which will bring significant and long-overdue reforms to the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (LEOBOR). The legislation was signed into law. He also introduced a bill that would protect employees from bullying and psychological abuse in workplace and another bill that would prohibit insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
During the 2023 legislative session, Deputy Speaker Hull introduced a new law which requires motorists to slow down or leave a buffer lane when nonemergency vehicles are parked on the shoulder of highways. He was the primary sponsor on another new law which requires default notices to lessees of self-service storage facilities to be sent to the lessee's last known address, and would require an advertisement of the sale of personal property to be published once on a publicly accessible website.
He also sponsored a bill which provides that adjunct faculty members at any state college or university who teach at least 50% of the hours regularly worked by full-time faculty in a semester would be eligible for the same medical benefits as other state employees.
Deputy Speaker Hull graduated from La Salle Academy in 1981. He attended the University of Rhode Island and Roger Williams University, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice in 1992. He received his Master's degree in the Administration of Justice from Anna Maria College in 1999.
Deputy Speaker Hull is currently the commanding officer of the Housing Unit in the Providence Police Department, where he has served for 30 years. He is the father of Andres and Karina, and resides in Providence.