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House Minority Leader Blake Filippi addresses special interest legislation, H7316, on the House Floor, which would limit participation in tax sales to local insiders and hurt homeowners who are down on their luck.
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During the House Floor debate on the bill to enact the Pharmaceutical Redistribution Program, Representative Robert Quattrocchi offered an amendment to help protect recipients of the redistributed drugs, by adding language that informed of the civil and criminal immunity of drug provider provisions that applied upon receipt and use of the repurposed pharmaceuticals. His amendment was voted down by the majority of his colleagues, with the explanation that these types of regulations were micromanaging the Department of Health.
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RI House Minority Leader Blake A. Filippi and Stella Inger Escobedo of One America News Network (OAN) discuss the punitive and divisive nature of S2552 (vaccine mandates with penalties for noncompliance) -- a bill which unfairly impacts Rhode Island's minority community and takes away medical privacy rights. The bill also creates continual "outlaw status" for those individuals and businesses that do not comply.
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House Minority Leader Blake A. Filippi and Tara Granahan WPRO discuss the House Happy Hour bill:
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Representative George Nardone responds to Central Coventry Fire District request for ARPA funds to remain solvent.
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State House, Providence – In response to the Providence Journal’s April 1, 2022 Hummel Report, which indicated that the Central Coventry Fire District will need to cease operations by June without state assistance, Representative George Nardone offers the following statement:
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State House, Providence – Rhode Island House Representative David Place (R-Burrillville/Glocester) and Rhode Island Senator Sam Bell (D- Providence) have teamed up to renew their efforts to limit costly corporate giveaways used to lure companies from neighboring states. They have resubmitted legislation to enlist Rhode Island in an interstate compact that protects public investments now, and in the future. A March 3, 2022 report by the Rhode Island Department of Revenue concluded that there are minor economic benefits deriving from the ReBuild RI tax credit, prompting interest by the legislators to defund corporate incentive programs by the state.
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