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2/3/2025
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MEDIA ADVISORY: House Judiciary Committee meets tomorrow to hear several bills
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STATE HOUSE – The House Judiciary Committee will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 4 at the Rise of the House (approximately 5 p.m.) in the House Lounge to hear testimony on several bills.
Among the legislation being heard by the committee are the following bills:
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2025-H 5046, sponsored by Rep. Jason Knight (D-Dist. 67, Barrington, Warren), criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.
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2025-H 5071, sponsored by Rep. Earl A. Reed, III (D-Dist. 26, West Warwick, Coventry, Warwick), considers state government caseworkers or investigators “public officials” for purposes of the prohibition on making threats to public officials.
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2026-H 5185, sponsored by Rep. Susan R. Donovan (D-Dist. 69, Bristol, Portsmouth), prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the future.
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2025-H 5262, sponsored by Rep. Thomas E. Noret (D-Dist. 25, Coventry, West Warwick), adds school superintendents, central office officials, school principals, and all other school employees, to the definition of a “public official” for purposes of the criminal prohibition against making threats to public officials.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television on: Cox Communications, channels 15 and 61 for high definition; i3Broadband (Formerly Full Channel) on 15; and Verizon, on channel 34. Livestreaming is available at https://capitoltvri.cablecast.tv
For more information, contact:
Larry Berman, Communications Director for the Office of the Speaker
State House Room 322
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-2466
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