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4/22/2024
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MEDIA ADVISORY: House Judiciary Committee meets on Wednesday for votes and testimony
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STATE HOUSE – The House Judiciary Committee will meet this week on Wednesday, April 24 at the RISE of the House (approximately 4:45 p.m.) in the House Lounge to vote on several bills and to hear testimony on a variety of legislation.
Among the legislation scheduled for votes are the following bills:
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2024-H 7271, sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman Robert E. Craven (D-Dist. 32, North Kingstown), provides that a magistrate of the Family Court has the power and authority to hear contested divorce matters.
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2024-H 7302, sponsored by Rep. Raymond A. Hull (D-Dist. 6, Providence, North Providence), dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provides a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good cause.
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2024-H 7371, sponsored by Rep. Justine A. Caldwell (D-Dist. 30, East Greenwich, West Greenwich), gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the Traffic Tribunal.
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2024-H 7629, sponsored by Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee (D-Dist. 33, South Kingstown, Narragansett), includes the offense of second-degree sexual assault among the offenses to which there shall be no statute of limitations and provides for a 10-year statute of limitations for third-degree sexual assault.
Among the legislation scheduled to be heard are the following bills:
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2024-H 7527, sponsored by Rep. Leonela Felix (D-Dist. 61, Pawtucket), would further delineate the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.
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2024-H 7573, sponsored by Rep. Thomas E. Noret (D-Dist. 26, Coventry, West Warwick), amends the statute punishing child pornography by replacing the term "child pornography" with the term "child sexual abuse material."
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2024-H 7749, sponsored by Rep. Joseph J. Solomon (D-Dist. 22, Warwick), provides for municipal and state police authorities to acquire and to utilize automated license plate readers. Further, the act identifies what data may be collected and in what ways the data can be used.
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2024-H 7798, sponsored by Rep. Matthew S. Dawson (D-Dist. 65, East Providence), makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.
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2024-H 8129, sponsored by Rep. John G. Edwards (D-Dist. 70, Tiverton), includes visual images that are created or manipulated by digitization, or without the consent of the person, within the purview of the crime of unauthorized dissemination of indecent material and expands jurisdiction of the crime.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at 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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