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House Minority Leader Michael W. Chippendale joins Tara Granahan WPRO to discuss RI House Minority Caucus Energy Reform Legislation.
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State House, Providence, RI – Rhode Island House Minority Leader Michael Chippendale and members of the Rhode Island House Minority Caucus held a media briefing to discuss bipartisan legislative efforts to create energy reform and cost savings for Rhode Island ratepayers.
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State House, Providence, RI – Freshman Rhode Island House Representative Richard Fascia (District 42 - Johnston/Cranston) introduced his first piece of legislation (H 5925), a bill that would establish a 300-foot buffer zone around schools for registered Level 3 sex offenders. This is consistent with other such sex offender statutes.
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State House, Providence, RI - House Republican Minority Leader Michael Chippendale has declined the usual annual invite to State House legislative leaders to sit on stage and take pre-planned questions at the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative luncheon on March 12, 2025.
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State House, Providence - Rhode Island House Minority Leader Michael Chippendale and the members of the House Minority Caucus present a detailed fiscal and policy map for the General Assembly --and the public-- to consider: The Rhode Island House Republican FY 2026 Budget and Policies Report. House Republicans offer budget principles for a sustainable Rhode Island, which provides a stark contrast and an alternative approach to the majority's past enacted budgets.
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State House, Providence, RI - Rhode Island House Minority Leader Michael Chippendale, on behalf of the House Minority Caucus, is submitting legislation to help streamline some unfunded, costly state education mandates on Rhode Island school districts -- many of which do not directly enhance the core education mission or services provided to students. After listening to school committees, including the Warwick School Committee which provided a comprehensive list of concerning mandates, this legislation came into form. Eliminating certain unfunded mandates would provide fiscal autonomy to school districts, allowing local resources to fund learning programs and tools that better service student needs.
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State House, Providence, RI - The debacle surrounding Rhode Island’s Unified Health Infrastructure Project (UHIP), later rebranded as RIBridges which is a custom computer system, has once again highlighted the failure of state leadership and their ill-advised reliance on the contractor Deloitte. This latest catastrophe - a cyberattack compromising the personal information of 630,000 Rhode Islanders - demands immediate accountability and swift corrective action.
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