Rhode Island General Assembly Has Special Summer Session This Week

(Providence, RI)--The full Rhode Island legislature is returning for a special summer session this week.First up, today, is the Senate, followed by the full House meeting on Thursday and then the Senate again.Included on the docket this week, but not scheduled for a vote according to a report from The Providence Journal, is the massive lottery contract extension for the state's lottery provider.There are votes scheduled for bills including one that would guarantee tax-free disability pensions to firefighters if they get any kind of cancer, one to put the question of removing the phrase "and Providence Plantations" from the state name before voters once again, and another affecting emergency mail ballot voting.


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