Rhode Island State Representative

Earl Read Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5309

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Increases the minimum veterans’ exemption from one thousand dollars ($1,000) to six thousand dollars ($6,000) with respect to municipal taxes.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5319

Introduced
2/5/25  
Allows any peace officer working in a Rhode Island school as a full or part-time resource officer to work in excess of the seventy-five (75) working days in a calendar year, and not have an interruption in their benefits.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5345

Introduced
2/7/25  
Extends the voluntary extension of care (VEC) program for all children in the care and custody of the state.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5377

Introduced
2/7/25  
Requires DCYF to implement recommendations made by the child advocate and child fatality review panel within 6 months and provide a report of the measures taken to address the recommendations.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5397

Introduced
2/7/25  
Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5406

Introduced
2/7/25  
Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand eight hundred pounds (8,800 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5413

Introduced
2/11/25  
HOUSE RESOLUTION EXTENDING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF ROBIN ANN MONTECALVO
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5421

Introduced
2/12/25  
Requires that all new school buses be equipped with live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring systems as of July 1, 2027. All buses, new and used, must have the monitoring systems installed by July 1, 2032.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5423

Introduced
2/12/25  
Repeals the legislative findings in this section and requires elementary, middle and high schools to provide and maintain on-site functional automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5437

Introduced
2/12/25  
Prohibits individuals from conveying items to or from the training school for youth without prior consent by the executive director of the division of youth development at the department of children, youth and families.