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.