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Senate Judiciary Committee holds multiple bills for further study after March 27 hearing
Summary
At its March 27 meeting the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee heard multiple bills and voted by voice to hold each for further study. The items included constitutional amendments, transparency measures, and statutory clarifications; no bills were advanced out of committee at the hearing.
The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee on March 27 considered a slate of bills spanning constitutional amendments, transparency proposals and statutory clarifications and, after hearings and testimony, voted by voice to hold each matter for further study. No bill advanced from the committee that day.
Votes at a glance (all actions recorded as motions to hold for further study; outcomes recorded as held by voice vote):
- S308 (joint resolution on a constitutional amendment regarding the gubernatorial line-item veto): motion to hold; outcome: held for further study.
- S579 (nonprofit transparency for legislative grants): motion to hold (mover: Senator Burke; second: Senator Oyer); outcome: held for further study.
- S729 (criminal prohibition on threats to election officials and poll workers): motion to hold (mover: Senator Burke; second: Senator Dimitri); outcome: held for further study.
- S514 (require retirement board to post and archive online recordings of meetings): motion to hold (mover: Senator Burke; second: Senator Quezada); outcome: held for further study.
- S725 (constitutional amendment limiting debt incurrence by state entities without legislative and voter approval): motion to hold; outcome: held for further study.
- S538 (Rhode Island Civil Rights Enforcement Act): motion to hold (mover: Senator Burke); outcome: held for further study.
- S583 (municipal litigation disclosure requirement): motion to hold (mover: Senator Quezada; second: Senator Dimitri); outcome: held for further study.
- S288 (statutory clarification of gubernatorial term limits): motion to hold (mover: Senator Demetri; second: Senator Quezada); outcome: held for further study.
Several items drew extended testimony; others had brief introductions and no witnesses. Committee members frequently asked staff and witnesses for written analyses, fiscal impacts, or comparative statutory language to guide potential amendments. The committee recessed briefly during the meeting to allow late-arriving senators to join.
The committee adjourned after the motions to hold were approved; it did not set final deadlines for reintroduction or amendment of the held bills.
