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Senate president lays out 2024 priorities; multiple gubernatorial appointments and committee meetings announced
Summary
The presiding officer opened the January session with policy priorities — health care access, Medicaid reimbursement, lead-pipe replacement over the next decade, housing, and workforce — and the clerk transmitted multiple gubernatorial appointments and committee schedules for early January.
The presiding officer opened the Rhode Island Senate’s January session with a new-year address that outlined policy priorities and highlighted recent accomplishments. The president wished colleagues and Rhode Islanders a happy new year, congratulated new leadership and staff, and described the chamber’s focus for 2024 on health care, education and housing.
In the address the presiding officer said the Senate "established a new $50,000 tangible property tax exemption, eliminating a significant burden for 75% of the businesses in…
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