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2010
| This bill will allow citizens to vote on a Constitutional Amendment to restore jurisdiction over the General Assembly to the state’s Ethics Commission. |
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2010-S 2391 |
Sen. J. Michael Lenihan |
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2010-H 7357 |
House Speaker Gordon Fox (Click here for the 67-5 vote on H 7357) |
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2010-S 2041 |
Sen. Lou Raptakis |
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2010-H 7371 |
Rep. Larry Ehrhardt |
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Voter Handbook
| Allow pro and con arguments in the Voter Information Handbook on Referendum questions |
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2010-S 2456Aaa |
Sen. Ed O'Neill |
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2010-H 7815 |
Rep. Michael Marcello |
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Publish legislator roll call committee votes
| Roll call committee votes are not published anywhere on the General Assembly website. It would not cost additional tax payer dollars to scan the documents containing the vote. |
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2010-S 2434 |
Sen. Lou DiPalma |
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2010-H 7202 |
Rep. Deborah Ruggiero |
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Eliminate straight-ticket voting
| This is a question at the top of the ballot asking the voter if he/she wants to vote for all members of a particular party with one vote. This does not allow the voter to choose their candidates, one at a time, or to not vote for a candidate he/she may not know. Only 14 states have straight-party voting, including Rhode Island. |
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2010-S 2310 |
Sen. David Bates |
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2010-H 7482 |
Rep. Brian Newberry |
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| Voter Initiative |
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Sen. Marc Cote |
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Rep. Rod Driver |
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Public financing of elections
| To allow public financing of General Assembly and General Office candidates. |
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2010-S 2454 |
Sen. Rhoda Perry |
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2010-H 7446 |
Rep. Christopher Fierro |
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Deepwater Wind Project
| OCG opposed this legislation for the end-run around the Public Utilities Commission |
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2010-S 2819Aaa |
Sen. Susan Sosnowski |
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2010-H 8083Aaa |
Rep. Patrick O’Neill |
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OCG LEGISLATIVE WRAP-UP, JUNE 2010
As the French said years ago: The more things change, the more they stay the same. That applies to the 2009-2010 Rhode Island General Assembly. Even though Senate President Montalbano left, and Speaker Murphy stepped down, the new leaders replacing them gave OCG the same result: none of OCG’s legislative priorities passed.
The new leadership, just like the old, also presided over a mad rush to adjourn during the last days of the session, amending and passing many bills with minimal opportunity for the public, or even rank and file legislators, to review or provide input.
The biggest disappointment was the Ethics reform bills (S2391 Lenihan, H7357 Fox) to allow voters to re-establish Ethics Commission conflict of interest oversight over the General Assembly. Though H7357 passed the House overwhelmingly, 67–5, it, and S2391, both died in the Senate Committee on Constitutional & Regulatory Issues, chaired by Senator Goodwin.
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