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Committee reviews budget articles: leases, paint recycling reporting and museum bond question
Summary
House Finance staff walked members through Article 3 (mandatory five‑year PaintCare plan resubmission), Article 9 (annual state leases including three large lease renewals) and the bond Question 6 package (a $45M Rhode Island History Center request plus $5M for preservation grants). Committee members asked for more lease cost detail; Secretary of State and preservation officials described the history center and the grant program.
House fiscal staff and agency witnesses presented a package of budget articles that the committee will review more fully in coming weeks.
Article 3 would require the PaintCare stewardship organization to resubmit its statewide plan every five years, even if the plan has not changed, and submit it to the Department of Environmental Management for review and approval. DEM staff and industry representatives told lawmakers the change would align Rhode Island with several other states that require periodic plan updates; PaintCare representatives said existing statute already requires…
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