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93%
261 missed
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3,234
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SB 946
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF LINCOLN TO ISSUE BONDS AND NOTES IN AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING $60,000,000 TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, REHABILITATION, REPAIR, IMPROVEMENTS, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF AND/OR ADDITIONS TO LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL AND SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE TOWN (Allows the town of Lincoln to issue $60,000,000 in bonds for school construction and renovation, subject to voter approval.)
Yea
Passed
68–0
Jun 28, 2017
HB 6203
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Permits the Cumberland Town Council to establish limits on the number of students from the Cumberland school district who may enroll in any charter public school subject to a collective limit of not less than 8% of the average daily membership.)
Yea
Passed
65–3
Jun 28, 2017
HB 6364
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Jared Saletin to join Kelsey Lucas and Brendon Duprey in marriage on or about July 7, 2018, within the City of Providence, Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
66–0
Jun 27, 2017
SB 552
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS (Removes the sixty (60) day excavation completion requirement for work near public utilities and would require accidents to be reported to 911.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 27, 2017
HB 6103
AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- BLOCK ISLAND UTILITY DISTRICT ACT OF 2017 (Creates the Block Island utility district to provide utility products and services to the town of New Shoreham.)
Yea
Passed
66–2
Jun 27, 2017
HB 6172
AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- RIGHT TO FARM (Defines secondary agricultural operations and would provide that municipalities may limit and regulate secondary agricultural use if it is determined that the use is harmful to public safety, but may not prohibit such agricultural operations.)
Yea
Passed
45–23
Jun 27, 2017
SB 570
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- TAXATION OF FARM, FOREST, AND OPEN SPACE LAND (Exempts no more than twenty percent (20%) of the total land acreage previously classified as farm, forest or open space land from land use change tax if the change is for purposes of a commercial renewable energy system.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 27, 2017
HB 6305
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RESILIENT RHODE ISLAND ACT OF 2014 - CLIMATE CHANGE COORDINATING COUNCIL (Directs the climate change coordinating council to study a carbon pricing program.)
Yea
Passed
60–9
Jun 27, 2017
HB 6171
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- ELECTRIC GENERATION SERVICE (Requires the public utilities commission to implement a purchase of receivables program where the electric distribution company purchases the receivables of a nonregulated power producer at a discount rate.)
Yea
Passed
70–0
Jun 27, 2017
SB 551
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (Expands use of public utilities reserve fund to state court appeals to and regulatory matters before federal agencies and increase amount chargeable to public utility to $750,000 but not more than $250,000 for administrator’s representation of state.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 27, 2017
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